John Schumann
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. […]
International Society for Biosemiotic Studies
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 […]
The Ontological Primacy of Umwelt Individuation – the genesis of individual entities – is generally presumed to begin with the ontology of already constituted individuals. Thus claims Gilbert Simondon. Rather […]
An Evening with Jesper Hoffmeyer In this half-hour video presentation, Jesper Hoffmeyer recounts his early days as a “positivist” biochemist, his involvement with the radical student movement in Denmark […]
In 2019, shortly after the death of our dear friend and colleague, Jesper Hoffmeyer, a number of us began making plans for a Memorial Conference in his honour to take place the following spring […]