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	Biosemiotics/encyclop.
		According to biosemiotics all processes going on in animate nature at whatever level, from the single cell to the ecosystem, should be analysed and conceptualised in terms of their character of being sign-processes.
		Biosemiotics, then, is concerned with the sign-aspects of the processes of life itself (not with the sign-character of the theoretical structure of life-sciences).
		Biosemiotics, however, is still in the phase of 'vagueness' and a diversity of interests and viewpoints has come to existence under its umbrella as can be seen from the recent collection of articles edited by Sebeok and Umiker-Sebeok (1992).
	www.zbi.ee /~uexkull/biosemiotics/jespintr.htm (1572 words)

	:: international society for biosemiotic studies ::
		Biosemiotics is an interdisciplinary research agenda investigating the myriad forms of communication and signification found in and between living systems.
		It is thus the study of representation, meaning, sense, and the biological significance of codes and sign processes, from genetic code sequences to intercellular signaling processes to animal display behavior to human semiotic artifacts such as language and abstract symbolic thought.
		The purpose of the International Society for Biosemiotic Studies (ISBS) is to constitute an organizational framework for the collaboration among scholars dedicated to biosemiotic studies, and to propagate knowledge of this field of study to researchers in related areas, as well as to the public in general.
	www.biosemiotics.org (282 words)

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		Biosemiotics is "naturalistic" in the sense given to the term in interactivism, it is fundamentally in accordance with a process metaphysics, and the study of the diversified cases of semiotic emergence is one of its primary concerns.
		Biosemiotics thus in many respects are related to the set of fundamental ideas on which interctivism is based.
		Central to the biosemiotic approach in theoretical biology is the Peircean notion of the sign as a triadic unity of relations between the sign vehicle, the object and the interpretant.
	www.lehigh.edu /~interact/isi2003/abstracts.isi2003/hoffmeyer.isi2003.html (249 words)

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		Biosemiotics claims to provide a non-reductionist explanation of the meaningful interactions between organism and environment, and although it is radically different from Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological approach, I believe it might nonetheless provide some insights into the kind of ontological framework that is appropriate for the full development of an ecological philosophy.
		Although the focus of the pioneering work in biosemiotics was on animal communicative behaviour – the subject matter of ethology -– a number of recent developments have explored a semiotic interpretation of the concepts and processes in the fields of molecular biology and evolutionary biology.
		Biosemiotics provides a fruitful alternative to the latter, rejecting the restrictive dyadic ontology which gives rise to reductionist explanations, and suggesting instead that these processes can be explained in terms of communicative sign processes, understood as a triadic unity rather than as a dyadic relationship.
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	:: international society for biosemiotic studies ::
		Biosemiotics is not one among other biological subdisciplines but constitutes a distinct theoretical frame for the study of biology.
		Biosemiotics, then, is concerned with the sign-aspects of the processes of life (not with the sign-character of the theoretical structure of life-sciences).
		In the biosemiotic conception the life sphere is permeated by sign processes (semiosis) and signification.
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	BIOSEMIOTICS
		The subject of biosemiotics, a new inter-discipline branch of science, is investigation of the biological nature of signs and semiotic base of biology.
		In this context biosemiotics appears to be an applied branch of semiotics which adopts semiotic concepts to biology.
		Biosemiotic approach may be useful for the theory of biosociality.
	www.ento.vt.edu /~sharov/biosem/txt/biosem.html (9882 words)

	Systema Naturae - Papers
		Biosemiotics has thus become a well established interdisciplinary field, and perhaps it is fair to say that its development was formally completed in 2001, when the first Gathering exclusively dedicated to biosemiotics took place in Copenhagen (by which time the official Directory listed 61 biosemioticians from all countries of the world).
		So far biosemiotics has been the discipline which has discovered that animals are interpreters, or semiotic agents; now we are told that mechanism is not competent to study this new world.
		I must conclude therefore that biosemiotics has not yet come of age, but I do hope that this criticism is taken for what it is: a diagnosis that is supposed not to hurt but to help.
	www.biologiateorica.it /papers/01papers.htm (4949 words)

	BIOSEMIOTICS 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Biosemiotics (bios = life and semion = sign) is an interdisciplinary field of theoretical and empirical studies of communication and signification in living systems.
		Biosemiotics, in contrast, attempts to see informational sign processes as something genuine, a basic set of phenomena of life that calls for a new understanding.
		Gatherings in Biosemiotics intend to establish a regular framework for discussions of biosemiotics in the context of biology and ecology.
	www.biosemiotics2005.com /index2.html (485 words)

	Journal of Biosemiotics (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Biosemiotics has become in this way the leading edge of the research on the fundamentals of life, and is a young exciting field on the move.
		The word Biosemiotics is the name of a new academic niche that for many people is situated at the periphery of the life sciences, somewhere at the border between biology and linguistics.
		The name suggests that Biosemiotics could be the study of the biological roots of semiotics, and in this case it would be a perfectly respectable science because there is little doubt that human language had biological origins.
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		Biosemiotics considers machine processes and pattern/signal interaction in nature only quasi-semiotic (not true triadic) processes.The current debate about the nature of consciousness in Journal of Consciousness studies shows us that neither Bertalanaffy’s or Prigogine’s foundations are enough.
		Biosemiotics acknowledge that semiosis is an essential part of all living systems and that semiotics should have the sign games of all living systems as its subject area.
		Biosemiotics, in name and scope, is partly neglecting or ignoring the contribution of second order cybernetics and autopoietic theory.
	www.mdpi.net /ec/papers/fis2002/128/Final.doc (15298 words)

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		Biosemiotics shares with other fields of semiotic enquiry a critique of Saussure in so far as Saussure's structuralism is taken as a model of language acquisition and of linguistics in general.
		Biosemiotics dissatisfaction with autopoiesis arises from the latter's philosophical solipsisim which Maturana himself has, in recent years, attempted to rectify.
		Biosemiotics is urged to continue to examine the `subjectivity' of organisms in relation to environment.
	www.semioticon.com /frontline/harries_jones.htm (6166 words)

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		Biosemiotics recognizes that the philosophical matter-mind problem extends downward to the pattern recognition and control processes of the simplest living organisms where it can more easily be addressed as a scientific problem.
		Biosemiotics was established as a necessary complement to the physical-chemical reductionist approach to life that cannot make this crucial categorical distinction necessary for describing semantic information.
		Biosemiotics also recognizes that to objectify the concept of the epistemic cut between matter and symbol we must make explicit what we mean by the acts of observation and interpretation at the most primitive level.
	www.panmere.com /rosen/mhout/doc00007.doc (7589 words)

	Gatherings in Biosemiotics 3 - call for papers
		The meeting this year is organized by the Biosemiotics Group (at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Center for the Philosophy of Nature and Science Studies) at the Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen.
		Biosemiotics (bios = life & semion = sign) is an interdisciplinary field of theoretical and empirical studies of communication and signification in living systems.
		Biosemiotics, in contrast, attempts to see informational sign processes as something genuine, a basic set of phenomena of life that calls for a new understanding.
	www.nbi.dk /~emmeche/pr/gath.2003/gath.2003.cfp.html (799 words)

	BIOSEMIOTICS
		The subject of biosemiotics, a new inter-discipline branch of science, is investigation of the biological nature of signs and semiotic base of biology.
		In this context biosemiotics appears to be an applied branch of semiotics which adopts semiotic concepts to biology.
		Biosemiotic approach may be useful for the theory of biosociality.
	www.gypsymoth.ento.vt.edu /~sharov/biosem/txt/biosem.html (9882 words)

	Biosemiotics: Towards a New Synthesis in Biology
		Accordingly, the aim of biosemiotics could be seen as that of developing biological theory to a level which equals our experimental knowledge about the living sphere of the earth.
		Biosemiotics confronts the same ontological problem as does traditional biology: The problem of explaining how coding surfaces could arise in lifeless nature.
		The difference between biosemiotics and biology rather has to do with the consequences to be drawn from the fact of coding.
	cogweb.ucla.edu /Abstracts/Hoffmeyer_97.html (6739 words)

	The Status of Biosemiotics
		The answers to the questions about the purpose, the domain and the approach of biosemiotics are the same as those to questions about semiotics as such, with an added biological perspective.
		Now, defining the scope of biosemiotics as the scientific investigation of biosemiosic processes is just a terminological dispute considering the interrelationships in the object domain.
		Last not least, a biosemiotic touch may be attributed to socio-bio-physicosemiotics (research in the object of box six) in a similar way.
	cartoon.iguw.tuwien.ac.at /zope/igw/menschen/technik/hofkirchner/papers/papers/InfoScience/kopenhagen/kopenhangen.html (3304 words)

	Biosemiotics: the new challenge (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Biosemiotics has been responsible for the acceleration of semiotics’ impetus in the last decade.
		Biosemiotics promises to transform biology; it poses a challenge to aspects of Darwinian orthodoxy; it re-orientates the study of the sign; and, arguably above all, it precipitates a major re-thinking of the human subject.
		‘Biosemiotics: the new challenge’ is a one-day international symposium run by the Communications and Subjectivity Research Group at London Metropolitan University in conjunction with the journal, Subject Matters.
	jcamd.londonmet.ac.uk /department/Biosemiotics.htm (135 words)

	Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Van Heijenoort's critique of Engels
		Biosemiotics shares with Ethology and Biosociology a common ancestor in Jakob v.
		Though Sharov's interpretant, the descendants (the gene frequency of the descendent population) the fact of differential reproduction in the descendent population does indeed effect the relation of interpreter with the environment such that certain objects are selected for digitalisation as contrasted with others that are ignored or discarded.
		Without a consideration of the impact of social life on the development of semiotic systems and committed to an abstract, ahistorical representation of semiotic activity, the proponents of biosemiotics cannot account for the development of the very consciousness that enables them to reflect on natural phenomenon and to construct ideas about it.
	www.mail-archive.com /marxism-thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu/msg01131.html (3629 words)

	Seventh Annual International Gatherings in Biosemiotics
		Biosemiotics is an interdisciplinary field of theoretical and empirical studies of communication and signification in living systems.
		Biosemiotics, by contrast, attempts to study informational sign processes as something genuine — a basic set of phenomena that are found instantiated, however differently, in all living systems that must act in the world and evolve accordingly.
		It is thus the study of meaning, sense, and the significance of dynamic codes and relational sign processes as such processes may be discoverable using the rigorous methodologies and empirical verification procedures of modern science.
	www.biosemiotics.org /Gatherings2007 (199 words)

	Biosemiotics - Introduction
		Below are few definitions of biosemiotics as taken from various authors.
		/../ Biosemiotics can be seen as a contribution to a general theory of evolution, involving a synthesis of different disciplines.
		Emmeche C. The biosemiotics of emergent properties in a pluralist ontology.
	www.zbi.ee /~uexkull/biosem.htm (806 words)

	Totality of semiosphere
		The paradox is that anthroposemioticians studying phenomena, when they are presented with some mechanisms witnessing biosemiosis, treat the fact of the existence of mechanisms as an indication of the inexistance of semiosis, since semiosis, in their opinion, should be free of mechanisms.
		It is characteristic for many branches of biosemiotics and semiotics in general that the historical aspect is ignored.
		The idea of evolutionary biosemiotics is even used as a principle for chaptering the book (main chapters from the 2nd to the 10th), together with acquiring the “greater and greater semiotic freedom” (p.
	www.ut.ee /SOSE/chebanov.htm (2502 words)

	Cybernetics & Human Knowing, Volume 6 No.3, Introduction
		Modern Peircean biosemiotics is very different from the symbolic semiotics of human language that cyberneticians distanced themselves from many years ago.
		We are grateful to have some of the finest scholars on Sebeok’s work and on biosemiotics, each of whom collaborated closely with Sebeok, contribute their thoughts to this issue.
		The obituary “Mister Biosemiotics” by Søren Brier dwells especially on Thomas Sebeok's contribution to the foundation of the field of biosemiotics.
	www.imprint.co.uk /C&HK/current_issue.html (648 words)

	Extended Concept of Knowledge
		In EE, the knowledge of the non-conscious knowers is discussed, and respectively in biosemiotics, non-human interpreters of meaningful signs are considered.
		Because biosemiotical subjects do not (in general) have any sort of mind (nor consciousness), we have to redefine the concepts of meaning, subject, and interpretation (of a sign) 'naturalistically', i.e.
		Thomas Sebeok is often named as the founding father of biosemiotics, even though Jacob von Uexkull (who was the teacher of Konrad Lorenz) is also mentioned as its predecessor.
	www.uta.fi /~attove/vehka-f.htm (7373 words)

	Biosemiotics Information
		Biosemiotics: A functional-evolutionary approach to the analysis of the sense of information.
		A biosemiotic theory of cognition (by Stephen Springette)
		Kull, K. On the history of joining bio with semio: F. Rothschild and the biosemiotic rules Kull, K. Biosemiotics in the twentieth century: a view from biology.
	www.ento.vt.edu /~sharov/biosem/biosem.html (615 words)

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		According to biosemiotics most processes in animate nature at whatever level, from the single cell to the ecosystem, should be analyzed and conceptualized as sign-processes (see below*).
		Whatever an organism senses also means something to it, food, escape, sexual reproduction etc., and all organisms are born into a semiosphere, i.e.
		Biosemiotics is a way to handle this realism without skipping any of the two arrows in the figure shown above.
	www.molbio.ku.dk /MolBioPages/abk/PersonalPages/Jesper/Hoffmeyer.html (677 words)

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