Biosemiotics

Semiotics of potential meanings Because semiosis is coextensive with living and life-dependent semiotic agents, meanings (relations of entities to something else that is significant for agents) exist only on condition […]

Discursivity and semiotic complexity as driving the shape of animal choice and human freedom Biosemiotics, it seems, holds the key not only to understanding life but also to one of […]

Danger Modeling: Meaning-generation in Three Dimensions In the struggle for existence, any known species of organisms must avert danger to ensure survival. To do that, they need to identify—or model—it […]

More constraints, more freedom: Revisiting semiotic scaffolding, semiotic freedom, and semiotic emergence Technically, constraint is defined as the reduction of degree of freedom. However, novelties emerge in dynamic systems with […]

Symbolic Concepts and Physicality   In this paper, I will address four aspects of physicality as they relate to symbolic concepts: science and symbolic concepts, entropy, self-organization, and biological energy. […]

The biosemiotic process: How to reproduce and adapt the identity of social systems by combining emotions and language   Biosemiotics concerns the process of learning of complex adaptive systems that […]

A Biosemiotic Approach to Gender: Avoiding Morphological Freedom This paper proposes a biosemiotic approach to gender. I argue that, in order for biosemiotic theory to be properly relevant for the […]

The Cognitive Spiral: Semiotic Freedom & Space Space has history and has taken different forms in different societies and at different times depending on the experiences accounted for and the […]

Diagnosing, Modelling and Solving Interspecies Cohabitation Issues: Anatomy of the Shared Semiosphere In this communication, I will present different steps of diagnosing and modelling a shared urban semiosphere in order […]

Time and Emergence: Towards a narrative inspired understanding of temporal semiosis What is the nature of time? Since the Einstein-Bergson debate this question has often been divided into two camps. […]

Refining how the term ‘Icon’ is conceived as a Step towards Nomothetic Descriptions of Behavioral-Ecological Events The term icon is ubiquitous. For example, in linguistics iconicity is conceived as the […]