Semethics
Semethics

Summary/Abstract: This principle (or rather, “rule of thumb”) of semethic interaction (Hoffmeyer 2008: 189), directs our attention to the dynamical connectedness of living units: a connectedness that is based on certain cognitive capacities they possess and the related adaptive plasticity. This connectedness has an irreducibly semiotic character almost independently of the chosen conception of sign or semiosis (an issue far from settled in biosemiotics), and in this sense the principle can be held as more essential for biosemiotics than perhaps more controversial ideas about semiosis at molecular levels.

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