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Jesper Hoffmeyer Memorial Celebration Day
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 at the University of Copenhagen. The arrival of the COVID pandemic in March of that year put an end to that plan, as international travel…
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Silver Rattasepp
The Ontological Primacy of Umwelt Individuation – the genesis of individual entities – is generally presumed to begin with the ontology of already constituted individuals. Thus claims Gilbert Simondon. Rather than describing the appearance of individual beings from something pre-individual, the analysis of the appearance of concrete entities usually concerns itself with the appearance of…
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Pauline Delahaye
Diagnosing, Modelling and Solving Interspecies Cohabitation Issues: Anatomy of the Shared Semiosphere [Slides from the presentation] In this communication, I will present different steps of diagnosing and modelling a shared urban semiosphere in order to solve interspecies cohabitation issues. Mainly, this presentation will introduce key concepts needed for this work and methods used – what…
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Tim Ireland
The Cognitive Spiral: Semiotic Freedom & Space [Slides from the presentation] Space has history and has taken different forms in different societies and at different times depending on the experiences accounted for and the available means to externalise and represent these (Jammer 2013). The representation is conditional on the technique used, delineating a cognitive loop…
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Alin Olteanu
A Biosemiotic Approach to Gender: Avoiding Morphological Freedom [Slides from the lecture] This paper proposes a biosemiotic approach to gender. I argue that, in order for biosemiotic theory to be properly relevant for the humanities and social sciences in general, a biosemiotic discourse on gender and sexuality is needed. Also, I explain that a biosemiotic…
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Mario Giampetro
The biosemiotic process: How to reproduce and adapt the identity of social systems by combining emotions and language [Slides from the presentation] Biosemiotics concerns the process of learning of complex adaptive systems that operate across multiple scales and levels of organization. This comprises the formation of informed autocatalytic processes (functional cycles) that can express…
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John Schumann
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. I have suggested that certain concepts do not have exclusively physical referents. They refer to concepts that lack mass, energy, and observability, but nevertheless, they…
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Constantijn-Alexander Kusters
Time and Emergence: Towards a narrative inspired understanding of temporal semiosis [Slides from the presentation] What is the nature of time? Since the Einstein-Bergson debate this question has often been divided into two camps. One camp approaching space-time in a point-like manner in terms of mathematics and/or physics, and a second camp favouring an anthropocentric…
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Liqian Zhou & Qiufen Sun
More constraints, more freedom: Revisiting semiotic scaffolding, semiotic freedom, and semiotic emergence [Slides from the presentation] Technically, constraint is defined as the reduction of degree of freedom. However, novelties emerge in dynamic systems with constraints. Constraints make once almost impossible states become possible. That is, constraint may raise the probability of the actual realization of…
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Alexei Sharov
Semiotics of potential meanings [Slides from the presentation] Because semiosis is coextensive with living and life-dependent semiotic agents, meanings (relations of entities to something else that is significant for agents) exist only on condition that semiotic agency exists capable of using/interpreting them. However, meanings can be actual or potential, depending on whether they are interpreted…
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