Some Leading Ideas of Peirce’s Semiotic

Ransdell, Joseph

doi:10.1515/semi.1977.19.3-4.157

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“…The interpreter is described by Peirce as a " Quasi-mind " ( CP 4:536 ), a description that demands, for its proper interpretation, a clear recognition of Peirce ' s broad concept of mind ( Ransdell 1977 ;Santaella-Braga 1994 ). It is not the case that only conscious beings can be interpreters in a Peircean framework.…”

Section: Semiosis and Information Processingmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Biosemiotic Approach in Biology: Theoretical Bases and Applied Models

Queiroz¹,

Emmeche²,

Kull³

et al. 2011

Information and Living Systems

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Section: Semiosis and Information Processingmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Biosemiotic Approach in Biology: Theoretical Bases and Applied Models

Queiroz¹,

Emmeche²,

Kull³

et al. 2011

Information and Living Systems

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“…The semiotics of Charles S. Peirce has long been regarded as a powerful tool for the investigation of meaning processes in biological (Ribeiro et al, 2007;Queiroz & El-Hani, 2006b;Deacon, 1997Deacon, , 2003Noble & Davidson, 1996;Ransdell, 1977;Emmeche, 1996) and artificial systems (Sun, 2000;Vogt, 2002;Roy, 2005a,b). According to Peirce's model, meaning processes (semioses) occur by means of an irreducible relation between three interdependent elements: object, sign (which refers to the object), and interpretant (the sign's effect on an interpreter) (Peirce, 1998, EP 2.171).…”

Section: Meaning and Semiosismentioning

confidence: 99%

Emergence of self-organized symbol-based communication in artificial creatures

Loula

Gudwin

El-Hani

et al. 2010

Cognitive Systems Research

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Abstract. In this paper, we describe a digital scenario where we simulated the emergence of self-organized symbol-based communication among artificial creatures inhabiting a virtual world of unpredictable predatory events. In our experiment, creatures are autonomous agents that learn symbolic relations in an unsupervised manner, with no explicit feedback, and are able to engage in dynamical and autonomous communicative interactions with other creatures, even simultaneously. In order to synthesize a behavioral ecology and infer the minimum organizational constraints for the design of our creatures, we examined the well-studied case of communication in vervet monkeys. Our results show that the creatures, assuming the role of sign users and learners, behave collectively as a complex adaptive system, where self-organized communicative interactions play a major role in the emergence of symbol-based communication. We also strive in this paper for a careful use of the theoretical concepts involved, including the concepts of symbol and emergence, and we make use of a multi-level model for explaining the emergence of symbols in semiotic systems as a basis for the interpretation of inter-level relationships in the semiotic processes we are studying.

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“…Semiotic processes can only be realized through physical implementation or instantiation (see Ransdell, 1977), and, thus, semiotic systems should be physically embodied. To put it differently, sign processes are relationally extended within the spatiotemporal dimension, so that something physical has to instantiate or realize them (Deacon, 1999;Emmeche, 2003).…”

Section: Emergence and Semiosismentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards a Multi-Level Approach to the Emergence of Meaning Processes in Living Systems

Queiroz

El-Hani²

2006

Acta Biotheor

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Any description of the emergence and evolution of different types of meaning processes (semiosis, sensu C.S.Peirce) in living systems must be supported by a theoretical framework which makes it possible to understand the nature and dynamics of such processes. Here we propose that the emergence of semiosis of different kinds can be understood as resulting from fundamental interactions in a triadically-organized hierarchical process. To grasp these interactions, we develop a model grounded on Stanley Salthe's hierarchical structuralism. This model can be applied to establish, in a general sense, a set of theoretical constraints for explaining the instantiation of different kinds of meaning processes (iconic, indexical, symbolic) in semiotic systems. We use it to model a semiotic process in the immune system, namely, B-cell activation, in order to offer insights into the heuristic role it can play in the development of explanations for specific semiotic processes.

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Some Leading Ideas of Peirce’s Semiotic

Cited by 99 publications

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The Biosemiotic Approach in Biology: Theoretical Bases and Applied Models

The Biosemiotic Approach in Biology: Theoretical Bases and Applied Models

Emergence of self-organized symbol-based communication in artificial creatures

Towards a Multi-Level Approach to the Emergence of Meaning Processes in Living Systems

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