Biosemiotics: Information, Codes and Signs in Living SystemsMarcello Barbieri Nova Publishers, 2007 - Всего страниц: 260 This book presents contexts and associations of the semiotic view in biology, by making a short review of the history of the trends and ideas of biosemiotics, or semiotic biology, in parallel with theoretical biology. Biosemiotics can be defined as the science of signs in living systems. A principal and distinctive characteristic of semiotic biology lies in the understanding that in living, entities do not interact like mechanical bodies, but rather as messages, the pieces of text. This means that the whole determinism is of another type. |
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Beyond Bioinformatics Can Similarity be Measured in the Digital World? | 65 |
Life is ArtifactMaking | 81 |
Genetics as a Communication Process Involving ErrorCorrecting Codes | 103 |
Semiotics for Biologists | 141 |
Modeling Systems Theory | 155 |
Natural History or Natural System? Encoding the Textual Sign | 165 |
Biosemiotics as a Structural Science Between the Forms of Life and the Life of Forms | 179 |
Meaning in Nature Placing Biosemiotics within Pansemiotics | 207 |
The Physics and Metaphysics of Biosemiotics | 219 |
Biosemiotics As a Mode of Thermodynamics in Second Person Description | 235 |
Index | 249 |
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Стр. 141 - A sign, or representamen, is something which stands to somebody for something in some respect or capacity. It addresses somebody, that is, creates in the mind of that person an equivalent sign, or perhaps a more developed sign.
Стр. 95 - Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution", it was common descent that he had in mind.
Стр. 236 - Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.
Стр. 185 - In scientific investigations it is permitted to invent any hypothesis, and if it explains various large and independent classes of facts it rises to the rank of a well-grounded theory.
Стр. 236 - To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction: or, the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal and directed to contrary pans.
Стр. 178 - The Consilience of Inductions takes place when an Induction, obtained from one class of facts, coincides with an Induction, obtained from another different class. This Consilience is a test of the truth of the Theory in which it occurs.
Стр. 167 - The Classical age gives history a quite different meaning: that of under-taking a meticulous examination of things themselves for the first time, . and then of transcribing what it has gathered in smooth, neutralized, and faithful words.
Стр. 97 - ... other laws of physics' hitherto unknown, which, however, once they have been revealed, will form just as integral a part of this science as the former.
Стр. 167 - And that, if biology was unknown, there was a very simple reason for it: that life itself did not exist. All that existed was living beings, which were viewed through a grid of knowledge constituted by natural history.