Biosemiotics

Posted on August 26, 2010
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New Scientist has an article on biosemiotics. It’s pretty interesting and avoids a lot of the hyperbole NS sometimes falls prey to. I really think Peircean styled semiotics will be the wave of the 21st century. In many ways OOP is just retracing his steps (albeit with slightly different metaphysics in some cases).

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Awesome article. Thanks for sharing. Biosemiotics seems to be similar to Gibson’s affordance theory, which was foreshadowed by American pragmatism and phenomenology. And that triple sign system of Peirce that the article talks about really seems to map nicely onto affordance theory and Heidegger’s concept of the in-order-to. For me, it is remarkable how much intellectual continuity there can be between diverse traditions of thought. It is a shame that few people are aware of the connections though.

Yeah – I completely agree.

Interesting article. It is more optimistic than another article I just read about biology:

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/08/systems-and-synthetic-biology-neither-models-nor-miracles.ars

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