What Does It Take to Produce Interpretation? Informational, Peircean, and Code-Semiotic Views on Biosemiotics

Journal Article · Mon Apr 01 00:00:00 EDT 2013 · Biosemiotics, 6(1):143-159

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s12304-012-9153-5· OSTI ID:1074289

Brier, Soren; Joslyn, Cliff A

This paper presents a critical analysis of code-semiotics, which we see as the latest attempt to create paradigmatic foundation for solving the question of the emergence of life and consciousness. We view code semiotics as a an attempt to revise the empirical scientific Darwinian paradigm, and to go beyond the complex systems, emergence, self-organization, and informational paradigms, and also the selfish gene theory of Dawkins and the Peircean pragmaticist semiotic theory built on the simultaneous types of evolution. As such it is a new and bold attempt to use semiotics to solve the problems created by the evolutionary paradigm’s commitment to produce a theory of how to connect the two sides of the Cartesian dualistic view of physical reality and consciousness in a consistent way.

• Research Organization: Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-76RL01830
• OSTI ID: 1074289
• Report Number(s): PNNL-SA-86502
• Journal Information: Biosemiotics, 6(1):143-159, Journal Name: Biosemiotics, 6(1):143-159
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English