Author: Kull, Kalevi

Source: Cybernetics & Human Knowing, Volume 16, Numbers 3-4, 2009 , pp. 81-88(8)

Publisher: Imprint Academic

Abstract:

The field of semiotics is described as a general study of knowing. Knowing in a broad sense as a process that assumes (and includes) at least memory (together with heredity), anticipation, communication, meaningful information, and needs, is a distinctive feature of living systems. Sciences are distinguished accordingly into phi-sciences (that use physicalist methodology) and sigma-sciences (that use semiotic methodology). Jesper Hoffmeyer's book Biosemiotics is viewed

Keywords: Biosemiotics; knowing; adaptation; Hoffmeyer

Document Type: Research article

Publication date: 2009-01-01

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