Frederik Stjernfelt Center for Semiotics Aarhus University Aarhus, Denmark [email protected] Abstract Theses on the semiotic study of life as presented here provide a collectively formulated set of statements on what biology needs to be focused on in order to describe life as a process based on semiosis, or signaction. An aim of the biosemiotic approach is to explain how life evolves through al...

On the belief that the universe is a semiosic web Sebeok placed no limits on semiotic inquiry as he chose to conduct it. In terms of fields of semiosis and objects of analysis Sebeok’s interests ranged from his studies in biology to his reflections relatively to lingusitics, cybernetics, and artificial intelligence, his musements relatively to narrative esthetic signs, his interest in ecology a...

This paper focuses on how opera rehearsal participants use depictions to accomplish proposals; they a locally created scene, comprised of concrete embodiments represent another physically or temporally distant scene. Whereas earlier work investigating in interaction has mainly focused demonstrations pedagogical scenarios, this will discuss serve the ongoing creation, and aesthetic negotiation, ...

This paper discusses processes of semiosis in embodied autonomous systems such as behavior-based robots or animals. The starting point for this investigation are the peculiarities of embodied autonomous systems, i.e. the fact that they are physical systems with a body that is to be moved around in the real world without the help of a human supervisor. We revisit previous results about the natur...

Claus Emmeche Center for the Philosophy of Nature and Science Studies Blegdamsvej 17, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark Internet: www.nbi.dk/~natphil/ Email: emmeche [at] nbi.dk URL of this paper: www.nbi.dk/~emmeche/cePubl/2004f.cpsas01.pdf Abstract The evolutionary emergence of biological processes in organisms with inner, qualitative aspects has not been explained in any sufficient way by neurob...