BiosemioticsPub Date : 2023-12-14DOI: 10.1007/s12304-023-09550-x
Francesco Pugliaro
{"title":"Modes of Bonding and Morphogenesis. Deleuze, Ruyer, and the Rearticulation of Life and Nonlife","authors":"Francesco Pugliaro","doi":"10.1007/s12304-023-09550-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12304-023-09550-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49230,"journal":{"name":"Biosemiotics","volume":"6 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139002647","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BiosemioticsPub Date : 2023-12-13DOI: 10.1007/s12304-023-09547-6
Supriya Bajpai, Lalit Saraswat
{"title":"Consciousness as Telos: An Evo-Devo Approach","authors":"Supriya Bajpai, Lalit Saraswat","doi":"10.1007/s12304-023-09547-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12304-023-09547-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Simona Ginsburg & Eva Jablonka (G&J), in <i>The Evolution of the Sensitive Soul (2019)</i>, explore the nature and status of the mind and subjective experiences from an evolutionary perspective. They raise a fundamental question about ‘the origin of animal consciousness during evolution’ (pg.1). The book begins by tracing the roots of consciousness studies from the Aristotelian perspective on the sensitive soul, referring to the dynamics of the living organization, percepts, and feelings. They use “subjective experiencing” to refer to both sentience and consciousness. They argue that to have an evolutionary account of subjective experiences, we need to develop an understanding of minimal consciousness or a marker like unlimited associative learning (UAL) indicating subjective experiences. In the book, the origin of life is marked by the evolution of goal-directed systems where the system can manifest unlimited heredity. They state that all the questions about the origin of minimal consciousness deal with ‘the emergence of new types of goal-directed systems’ (p.1).</p>","PeriodicalId":49230,"journal":{"name":"Biosemiotics","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138630282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BiosemioticsPub Date : 2023-12-04DOI: 10.1007/s12304-023-09548-5
Liqian Zhou
{"title":"More Constraints, More Freedom: Revisit Semiotic Scaffolding, Semiotic Freedom, and Semiotic Emergence","authors":"Liqian Zhou","doi":"10.1007/s12304-023-09548-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12304-023-09548-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p>How semiotic freedom emerges in the evolution and development of organisms through semiotic scaffolding is a core problem for biosemiotics. There is a paradox in explaining this semiotic emergence: reduction in (semiotic) freedom leads to the creation of new semiotic freedom. Semiotic emergence is a species of dynamic emergence. Accordingly, the paradox of semiotic emergence is a species of the paradox of dynamic emergence. The latter paradox claims that reducing lower-level freedom generates new freedom at a higher level. The solution to the paradox lies in clarifying the ambiguity in the term freedom. The conceptual inconsistency in the paradox comes from confusing two types of freedom. One type of freedom means the possibility a system could have, while the other refers to the capacity of a system to access a specific (range of) state(s). There is an inverse relation between the two types of freedom. With the clarification, the conceptual inconsistency is explained away. This understanding of semiotic emergence may help us further understand core ideas in biosemiotics and provide a conceptual foundation for empirical studies of biosemiotics.</p>","PeriodicalId":49230,"journal":{"name":"Biosemiotics","volume":"55 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138512900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BiosemioticsPub Date : 2023-11-13DOI: 10.1007/s12304-023-09546-7
Sergio Torres-Martínez
{"title":"An Integrated Bayesian-Heuristic Semiotic Model for Understanding Human and SARS-CoV-2 Representational Structures","authors":"Sergio Torres-Martínez","doi":"10.1007/s12304-023-09546-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12304-023-09546-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49230,"journal":{"name":"Biosemiotics","volume":"23 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136283103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BiosemioticsPub Date : 2023-10-31DOI: 10.1007/s12304-023-09545-8
Timo Maran
{"title":"Umwelt Collapse: The Loss of Umwelt-Ecosystem Integration","authors":"Timo Maran","doi":"10.1007/s12304-023-09545-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12304-023-09545-8","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Jakob von Uexküll’s umwelt theory opens new perspectives for understanding animal extinction. The umwelt is interpreted here as a sum of structural correspondences between an animal’s subjective experience, ecosystem, physiology, and behaviour. The global environmental crisis disturbs these meaning-connections. From the umwelt perspective, we may describe extinction as umwelt collapse: The disintegration of an animal’s umwelt resulting from the cumulative errors in semiotic processes that mediate an organism and ecosystem. The loss of umwelt-ecosystem integration disturbs “ecological memory,” which provides the ecosystem with adaptive modelling and self-design capacities. Making a distinction between core and mediated umwelts, and describing different types of umwelt collapse, are suitable methods for more detailed analysis. The concept of umwelt collapse enables the reinterpretation of extinction, from an internal perspective, as a semiotic breakdown. Such an approach may help us map scenarios of animal extinction, and may lead to successful compensation strategies in adapting to environmental change.","PeriodicalId":49230,"journal":{"name":"Biosemiotics","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135871400","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BiosemioticsPub Date : 2023-10-09DOI: 10.1007/s12304-023-09544-9
Ludmila Lackova, Ahti-Veikko Juhani Pietarinen, Morten Tønnessen
{"title":"Biosemiotic Achievement Award for the Year 2022","authors":"Ludmila Lackova, Ahti-Veikko Juhani Pietarinen, Morten Tønnessen","doi":"10.1007/s12304-023-09544-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12304-023-09544-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49230,"journal":{"name":"Biosemiotics","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135093847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BiosemioticsPub Date : 2023-10-09DOI: 10.1007/s12304-023-09543-w
Kalevi Kull
{"title":"Interview with Gerd B. Müller on Theoretical Biology","authors":"Kalevi Kull","doi":"10.1007/s12304-023-09543-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12304-023-09543-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49230,"journal":{"name":"Biosemiotics","volume":"292 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135141991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BiosemioticsPub Date : 2023-09-12DOI: 10.1007/s12304-023-09539-6
Eylül Tuğçe Alnıaçık Özyer, Rumeysa Çavuş Peksöz
{"title":"Semiocide and Wasteocene in the Making: The Case of Adana Landfill","authors":"Eylül Tuğçe Alnıaçık Özyer, Rumeysa Çavuş Peksöz","doi":"10.1007/s12304-023-09539-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12304-023-09539-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49230,"journal":{"name":"Biosemiotics","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135884821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BiosemioticsPub Date : 2023-09-12DOI: 10.1007/s12304-023-09541-y
Sergio Rodríguez Gómez, Germán Jiménez
{"title":"Animalista, Narco-Cultural, Conservacionista. Visions of Nature Around the Case of Hippos in Colombia","authors":"Sergio Rodríguez Gómez, Germán Jiménez","doi":"10.1007/s12304-023-09541-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12304-023-09541-y","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Since their introduction in Colombia in the '80s for Pablo Escobar’s extravagant zoo, hippos have become an ecological problem around the basin of the Magdalena River. This article proposes an ecosemiotic discourse analysis of different visions of nature enacted by stakeholders and public opinion around the management of hippos in Colombia. Concretely, we focus on three particular discourses and visions of nature: animalista, narco-cultural, and conservacionista. In this article, we present the relevant social and ecological context of Colombia, the visions of nature theory and the impact of such visions on conservation measures regarding so-called invasive species; we describe and analyze the three visions of nature we center on, and present a computational analysis of discourse dynamics and controversies in Twitter between of such visions of nature; and we reflect on possible courses of action and recommendations about addressing the close interrelation of public discourses and ecosystem conservation by proposing an alternative view, based on the biosemiotic framework of semiocide, to the concept of invasive species.","PeriodicalId":49230,"journal":{"name":"Biosemiotics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135879295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BiosemioticsPub Date : 2023-09-06DOI: 10.1007/s12304-023-09538-7
P. Augustyn
{"title":"Can the ‘Master Narrative’ of Growth be Replaced by New Stories of Shrinking and Degrowth? A Biosemiotic Perspective on the ‘Stories we Live by’","authors":"P. Augustyn","doi":"10.1007/s12304-023-09538-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12304-023-09538-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49230,"journal":{"name":"Biosemiotics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47396819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}