2008
DOI: 10.1007/s12304-008-9008-2
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Biosemiotic Questions

Abstract: This paper examines the biosemiotic approach to the study of life processes by fashioning a series of questions that any worthwhile semiotic study of life should ask. These questions can be understood simultaneously as: (1) questions that distinguish a semiotic biology from a non-semiotic (i.e., reductionist-physicalist) one;(2) questions that any student in biosemiotics should ask when doing a case study; and (3) still currently unanswered questions of biosemiotics. In addition, some examples of previously un… Show more

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“…Since such a reading of the phenomenon discloses a systemic perspective, biosemiotics -the semiotic modelling of systemic relations -provides therefore an adequate theoretical framework for its treatment (Eder, Rembold 1992;Kull et al 2008;Favareau 2010).…”
Section: Functions and Defi Nitions Of Exaptationsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Since such a reading of the phenomenon discloses a systemic perspective, biosemiotics -the semiotic modelling of systemic relations -provides therefore an adequate theoretical framework for its treatment (Eder, Rembold 1992;Kull et al 2008;Favareau 2010).…”
Section: Functions and Defi Nitions Of Exaptationsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Since the concept was proposed as a response to the predominance of adaptation in the neo-Darwinian paradigm for evolutionary change, this article follows the same critical approach and the theoretical framework of reference adopted to address its analysis is the research program of biosemiotics, namely a semiotic science whose paramount heuristic principle consists in the view that a sign-based modelling of living organism can provide a bett er understanding than traditional (physicalist or neo-Darwinian) approaches within mainstream biology (Kull et al 2008).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Unfortunately this is not the common motivation of most biochemists. When they are confronted with the biosemiotics perspective, they often resist semiotic expression of the problems of life as nothing but restatements of what they describe in 8 Some points on the role of biosemiotic empirical research are described in Kull, Emmeche, Favareau 2008. their well-developed material language, which they regard as a more scientific description of life.…”
Section: The Way To Proceedmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Molecular biologists are experts in many sophisticated technologies that are essential for understanding how organisms actually interpret the enormous complexities of genetic and epigenetic discourse. Biosemiotics can contribute to this understanding by asking the right questions, some of which have been recently outlined by Kull et al (2008). However what appears as gratuitous characterization of biologists as "non-semiotic" and "mired in a self-defeating metaphysics" does not give a fair picture of how biologists work, and will certainly not promote biosemiotics among biologists.…”
Section: Suggestions On How To Alleviate the Two-culture Problemmentioning
confidence: 99%