In the biosemiotic literature there is a tension between the naturalistic reference to biological processes and the category of ‘meaning’ which is central in the concept of semiosis. A crucial term bridging the two dimensions is ‘information’. I argue that the tension can be resolved if we reconsider the relation between information and entropy and downgrade the conceptual centrality of Shannon...

Poetic analysis involves the explication of a poem by focusing on the process of semiosis in it. Through semiosis linguistic meaning is transformed into stylistic meaning. An examination of semiosis brings us to look at the hypersemanticized poetic structures which are none other than the style features of a poem. Since style functions in a literary text by conveying meanings other than literal...

Abstract This article deals with the question of how self-organization in living organisms is realized. Self-organization may be observed open systems that are out equilibrium. Many disequilibria-conversion phenomena exist where free energy conversion occurs by spontaneously formed engines. However, realized entities? Living cells turn to self-organizing disequilibria-converting a special kind....

Any description of the emergence and evolution of different types of meaning processes (semiosis, sensu C.S.Peirce) in living systems must be supported by a theoretical framework which makes it possible to understand the nature and dynamics of such processes. Here we propose that the emergence of semiosis of different kinds can be understood as resulting from fundamental interactions in a triad...

Meaning is a central problem in intelligent systems design. Most approaches in literature still adopt a strict symbolic definition of meaning, which usually results in deficiencies such as the symbol grounding problem. The objective of this research is to come up with a computational model of the emergence of meaning in autonomous agents based on the pragmatic notion of sign as defined by Charl...