Tag: Semiotics

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,...

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...