Alexei A Sharov
Alexei A Sharov
Principles of constructivism are used here to explore how organisms develop tools, subagents, scaffolds, signs, and adaptations. Here I discuss reasons why organisms have composite nature and include diverse subagents that interact in parti...
Marcin Miłkowski
Marcin Miłkowski
Recent work on skin-brain thesis (de Wiljes et al. 2015; Keijzer 2015; Keijzer et al. 2013) suggests the possibility of empirical evidence that empiricism is false. It implies that early animals need no traditional sensory receptors to be e...
Krystyna Bielecka,Mira Marcinów
Krystyna Bielecka
In this paper, we defend a representational approach to at least some kinds of non-human psychopathology. Mentally-ill non-human minds, in particular in delusions, obsessive-compulsive disorders and similar cognitive states, are traditional...
Genetic Engineering and Human Mental Ecology: Interlocking Effects and Educational Considerations [0.03%]
基因工程与人类精神生态学：相互作用效应及教育考虑
Ramsey Affifi
Ramsey Affifi
This paper describes some likely semiotic consequences of genetic engineering on what Gregory Bateson has called "the mental ecology" (1979) of future humans, consequences that are less often raised in discussions surrounding the safety of ...
Alexei A Sharov
Alexei A Sharov
In contrast to the traditional relational semiotics, biosemiotics decisively deviates towards dynamical aspects of signs at the evolutionary and developmental time scales. The analysis of sign dynamics requires constructivism (in a broad se...
Ramsey Affifi
Ramsey Affifi
Genetic interventions, which include transgenic engineering, gene editing, and other forms of genome modification aimed at altering the information "in" the genetic code, are rapidly increasing in power and scale. Biosemiotics offers unique...
Vitalism as Pathos [0.03%]
作为情愫的活力论
Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
This paper addresses the remarkable longevity (in spite of numerous 'refutations') of the idea of vitalism in the biological sciences and beyond. If there is to be a renewed vitalism today, however, we need to ask - on what kind of original...
Alexei Sharov,Timo Maran,Morten Tønnessen
Alexei Sharov
Evolution of natural agents: preservation, advance, and emergence of functional information [0.03%]
自然主体的演化：功能信息的保存、发展和出现
Alexei A Sharov
Alexei A Sharov
Biological evolution is often viewed narrowly as a change of morphology or allele frequency in a sequence of generations. Here I pursue an alternative informational concept of evolution, as preservation, advance, and emergence of functional...
Jordi Gómez,Ascensión Ariza-Mateos,Isabel Cacho
Jordi Gómez
Currently, the concept of the cell as a society or an ecosystem of molecular elements is gaining increasing acceptance. The basic idea arose in the 19th century, from the surmise that there is not just a single unit underlying an individual...