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Vol. 30 No. 1 (2002)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.12697/30.1

Published: 2002-12-30

Editorial

Editors’ comment

Claus Emmeche, Jesper Hoffmeyer, Kalevi Kull

11-13
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Articles

The chicken and the Orphean egg: On the function of meaning and the meaning of function

Claus Emmeche

15-32
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Umwelt and semiosphere

Mihhail Lotman

33-40
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Semiosphere: A chemistry of being

Kaie Kotov

41-55
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Beyond self and other: On the neurosemiotic emergence of intersubjectivity

Donald Favareau

57-100
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On the epigenesis of meaning in robots and organisms: Could a humanoid robot develop a human(oid) Umwelt?

Tom Ziemke

101-111
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Intrasemiotics and cybersemiotics

Søren Brier

113-128
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Back to the science of life

Anton Markoš, Fatima Cvrčková

129-147
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Three types of semiotic indeterminacy in Monod’s philosophy of modern biology

Stefan Artmann

149-161
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Where bonds become binds: The necessity for Bateson’s interactive perspective in biosemiotics

Peter Harries-Jones

163-181
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Feeling the signs: The origins of meaning in the biological philosophy of Susanne K. Langer and Hans Jonas

Andreas Weber

183-200
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Human/animal communications, language, and evolution

Dominique Lestel

201-212
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On the zoosemiotics of health and disease

Aleksei Turovski

213-219
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Does “quorum sensing” imply a new type of biological information?

Luis Emilio Bruni

221-243
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Pragmatics and biosemiotics

Alexei A. Sharov

245-258
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Evolution of the “window”

Vefa Karatay, Yağmur Denizhan

259-270
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Biological evolution — a semiotically constrained growth of complexity

Abir U. Igamberdiev

271-282
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Biosemiotic knowledge — a prerequisite for valid explorations of extraterrestrial intelligent life

Elling Ulvestad

283-292
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Why and how to naturalize semiotic concepts for biosemiotics

Tommi Vehkavaara

293-313
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Understanding life: Trans-semiotic analogies

Andres Luure

315-325
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A sign is not alive — a text is

Kalevi Kull

327-336
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Tractatus Hoffmeyerensis: Biosemiotics as expressed in 22 basic hypotheses

Frederik Stjernfelt

337-345
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Habit formation as symmetry breaking in the early universe

Peder Voetmann Christiansen

347-360
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Energy and evolutionary semiosis

Edwina Taborsky

361-381
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Reviews and Notes

Obituary: Thomas A. Sebeok

Jesper Hoffmeyer

383-386
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