Life and reference.

by: J Hoffmeyer

Biosystems, Vol. 60, No. 1-3. (y 2001), pp. 123-130.

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The paper recommends a broadening of Howard Pattee's seminal distinction between a dynamic and a linguistic mode of living systems. It is observed that even the dynamic mode is always a semiotic mode although indexical and analogically coded rather than symbolic and digitally coded. The analogically coded messages corresponds to a kind of tacit knowledge hidden in macromolecular structure and shape (e.g. molecular complementarity) and in organismic architecture and communication, i.e. in the semiotic interactions of the body. It is claimed that the origin of referential processes is tied to the flow of historical singularities. The function of analog and digital codes in evolutionary systems is discussed.

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TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1512287 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1512287 TI - Life and reference. JF - Biosystems VL - 60 IS - 1-3 SP - 123 EP - 130 AD - Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Copenhagen, Solvgade 83, DK 1307, Copenhagen, Denmark. hoffmeyer@mermaid.molbio.ku.dk SN - 0303-2647 N2 - The paper recommends a broadening of Howard Pattee's seminal distinction between a dynamic and a linguistic mode of living systems. It is observed that even the dynamic mode is always a semiotic mode although indexical and analogically coded rather than symbolic and digitally coded. The analogically coded messages corresponds to a kind of tacit knowledge hidden in macromolecular structure and shape (e.g. molecular complementarity) and in organismic architecture and communication, i.e. in the semiotic interactions of the body. It is claimed that the origin of referential processes is tied to the flow of historical singularities. The function of analog and digital codes in evolutionary systems is discussed. KW - biosemiotics AU - Hoffmeyer, J PY - 2001///y UR - http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11325507 ER -

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