I examine the incongruence that lies at the heart of the concepts of causation and information which are central to biosemiotic studies. I present a more coherent framework which I relate to species, consciousness, institutions, cultures and ecologies. In doing so,...
A principle message from Jacob von Uexküll was the importance of meaning in understanding life. But currently, naturalising biological meaning, in all the varied ways in which meaning is characterised in living organisms, remains a principle challenge for biosemiotics. What is...
This year’s Science of Consciousness conference was to be held in April in Tuscon, Arizona. Due to the covid-19 virus, however, the event was postponed and then relaunched as an online event. So I uploaded my presentation which was based on...
In the first half of this presentation, I provide an overview of the idea that there is a hierarchy of distinct biological mechanisms that generate ontologically distinct classes of knowledge about the world. These distinct classes are described as qualitative, phenomenal...