Biosemiotics

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 […]

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 […]