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Summary/Abstract: The merit of Jesper Hoffmeyer’s pointing out the insufficiency of physico-chemical explanation for living systems and their origin is hard to overestimate. He points out that this insufficiency manifests itself even in the face of recent, very important, developments in physical theory that concern the phenomena of self-organization and emergence. As Hoffmeyer writes: “How‘it’s can possibly become ‘I’s is the puzzle that must be explained – and not even dynamical systems theory does yet offer a solution to this puzzle. What is missing, I would argue, is the admission of a semiotic dimension of explanation” (2008:179).

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