Tartu Semiotics Library 22: The material bases of meaning
Tartu Semiotics Library 22: The material bases of meaning

Summary/Abstract: Biosemiotics – the study of meaning-making in living systems – keeps advancing and is slowly transforming biology. It is building a biology in which the life’s process of meaning-making and the impact of semiosis on life in general are described and explained, a biology in which the phenomenon of freedom would find a place. On this scholarly journey, rereading and reintepreting earlier attempts of building such a biology has a very important role. This is the reason for publishing this book written over four decades ago. There are several theories explaining the origin of mind from matter, either gradualist or emergentist creation of knowledge via primary formation of signs. This is one among them. We are providing it in order to encourage discussion on the mechanisms of meaning, on the interpretation of primary recognition, meaning-making and knowing, from chemistry to biology to semiotics, and back.

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