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The Natural Emergence of (Bio)Semiosic Phenomena
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van Hateren JH
Biosemiotics
2015[]; 8
(3
): 403-419
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Biological organisms appear to have agency, goals, and meaningful behaviour. One
possibility is that this is mere appearance, where such properties are not real,
but only 'as if' consequences of the physiological structure of organisms.
Another possibility is that these properties are real, as emerging from the
organism's structure and from how the organism interacts with its environment.
Here I will discuss a recent theory showing that the latter position is most
likely correct, and argue that the theory is largely consistent with the basics
of the field of biosemiotics. The theory can be represented as a triad that
resembles the semiotic triad proposed by Peirce, which connects a sign with its
object through a process of interpretation. In the theory presented, the sign is
an internalized version of fitness (i.e., expected reproductive rate) which
refers to the true fitness through a feedback loop that in effect produces
interpretation. The feedback loop entangles deterministic and stochastic forms of
causation in such a way that genuine agency, goal-directedness, and their
associated meaning emerge. It produces a strong form of emergence not reducible
to its constituents. The result is that novel phenomena arise that are real and
necessary components for a complete understanding of living organisms.
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