Biosemiotics

An attempt at a semiotic approach to animal play and joking Play in the animal kingdom is an extremely widespread phenomenon, most studied in higher vertebrates (birds and mammals), but […]

A biosemiotic perspective on the human condition and the environmental crisis In this presentation I will present the book chapter “A biosemiotic perspective on the human condition and the environmental […]

The thresholds for extending the evolutionary synthesis: How far can we go? The research project “Methodological design of extended evolutionary synthesis: interdisciplinary framework for social and life sciences” (Russian Science […]

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 […]