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Frederik Stjernfelt
Peirce’s ideas of the man-animal distinction Peirce was an evolutionist and one of the first to generalize the concept of evolution from biology to physics and sociology alike. He also took some interest in locating what it is that separates the human animal from other higher animals. As to biological instinct, it was the human…
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Mikhail Ilyin & Nikolai Skipin
The thresholds for extending the evolutionary synthesis: How far can we go? [Slides from the presentation] The research project “Methodological design of extended evolutionary synthesis: interdisciplinary framework for social and life sciences” (Russian Science Foundation, № 22-18-00383) faces the challenges of crossing interfaces between traditional scientific disciplines, paradigms (in Kuhn’s sense), research programmes (in Lakatos’…
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Debbie Cole
Preliminary Connections with Semiotics in Linguistic Anthropology As a newcomer to the field of Biosemiotics, I find the Biosemiotics Glossary Project a fascinating example of intentional interdisciplinary and intercultural communication. Linguists within anthropology have long worked on language contact, i.e. the emergence, maintenance, and evolution of new registers within their cultural contexts. The building of…
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Paul Cobley
Does Biosemiotics Need a Theory of Reading? Paul Cobley Central to biosemiotics is the process of interpretation, which takes place across all species of life. General semiotics has been enlivened by the concept of ‘the text’ and the concomitant act of ‘reading’ (Lotman 1964), with interpretation embedded in it. The term ‘reading’ clearly invokes a…
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Massimo Cerizza
In praise of Brainwaves as Tissue. A biosemiotic perspective Until discovery of telescopes Saturn was thought, by proto-scientists, to be the last planet of our solar system. Equally nowadays, in anatomic perspective, the skin is considered histologically the furthest tissue that divides us from , and is in contact with the external environment. But exactly…
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Mariana Vitti Rodrigues, Claus Emmeche & Henrik Nielsen
Protein language models and the semiotic language of Signal Peptides Mariana Vitti Rodrigues, Claus Emmeche & Henrik Nielsen Are language models learning to read the language of nature? This communication explores the learning potential of applying automated methods to predict signal peptides using protein language models. Signal Peptides (SP) are short amino acid sequences whose…
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Rebeca Méndez-Veras & Òscar Castro
Biosemiotics as a theoretical framework to approach the human gut-microbiota-brain-axis Rebeca Méndez-Veras & Òscar Castro The human brain has approximately 86-100 billion neurons; however, the enteric nervous system has an estimated 200 million neurons, which is why our gut is called the “second brain”. Both systems connect through several sensors, microbes, and cells (Sarkar et…
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Peter Lang
Deleuze and Biosemiotics Peter Lang The aim of this paper is to establish a clear link between biosemiotics and Deleuzean philosophy. This can be done by highlighting the affinity in Deleuze’s work to theories of autopoiesis and organic/biophysical sense-making. A compelling through-line can be drawn between Deleuze, theories of living systems, and biosemiotics in the…
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Ľudmila Lacková
Biological Writing: An Appendix to The Language Metaphor of Life Ľudmila Lacková The language metaphor of life has been proposed as an analogy to the linguistic model, where a specific biological level corresponds to a specific language level (DNA bases correspond to phonemes, triplets of bases correspond to words and genes correspond to sentences). This…
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Tyler Bennett
Waste and the Second Turn in Biosemiotics Tyler Bennett The main characteristics of the second turn in biosemiotics are: “(a) extending the integration to Saussurean approaches; i.e. developing a general semiotics which synthesizes Peircean, Saussurean and Uexküllean theories; and (b) grounding aesthetics and ideology in biosemiotics” (Chávez Barreto et. al 2022). The second turn was…
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