Biosemiotics: life is sign systems


	Biosemiotics: life is sign systems

abailart

1-10-2008 5:28 PM

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1-10-2008 8:11 PM

wildcat

important clip for me at present, writing about language.. thx ab

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(i) the study of signs, of communication, and of information in
living organisms</B><DIV> (Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
1997. Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 72).</DIV>
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(ii) biology that interprets living systems as sign
systems</B> (Emmeche, Kull, Stjernfelt 2002: 26).</DIV>
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(iii) the scientific study of biosemiosis</B> (Emmeche, Kull, Stjernfelt
2002: 9).</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.zbi.ee/~uexkull/biosem.htm">
Below are few definitions of biosemiotics as taken from various authors.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.zbi.ee/~uexkull/biosem.htm">The process of message exchanges, or semiosis, is an indispensable
characteristic of all terrestrial life forms. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.zbi.ee/~uexkull/biosem.htm">sign processes in nature in all dimensions,</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.zbi.ee/~uexkull/biosem.htm">
"A modern unification of biology /../ has to be based on the fundamentally
semiotic nature of life." (Hoffmeyer 1997)</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.zbi.ee/~uexkull/biosem.htm">
"Sign processes penetrate the entire body of an organism. [...]
Signification is the fundamental property of living systems that can be
taken as a definition of life. Hence, biosemiotics can be viewed as a root
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