The lower threshold as a unifying principle between Code Biology and Biosemiotics

Lacková, Ľudmila; Faltýnek, Dan

doi:10.1016/j.biosystems.2021.104523

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“…It is possible for organisms to communicate about things that do not exist at that time or location when the signal is used in place of the object. It enables the representation of the outside world by an organism (Lacková & Faltýnek, 2021).…”

Section: Natural Language As a New Paradigm For Biologymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The boundary that distinguishes between semiosis and non‐semiosis is referred to as the ‘semiotic threshold’ (Eco, 1976; Lacková & Faltýnek, 2021; Rodríguez Higuera & Kull, 2017). It traditionally distinguished between the languages of animals and humans, though it is currently accepted that semiosis is also performed at the level of cells.…”

Section: Natural Language As a New Paradigm For Biologymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For Kull, the object is embodied in the sign, and despite the fact that the interpretant does not apparently recognize the object, the researcher may reconstruct it. In other words, the semiotic dimension comes from the two remaining elements that the sign represents (Lacková & Faltýnek, 2021). In these simplest signs, the object is not the same as the Peircean object, but it retains the triadic character of the signifying relation.…”

Section: Natural Language As a New Paradigm For Biologymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Rather, it would refer to a beneficial action for the organism, and the sign would be adaptive. Alternatively, Lacková & Faltýnek (2021) provided a common root for code biology and Peircean biosemiotics at the simplest level of biological organization in that both imply triadic relations that cannot be reduced to dyadic relations, as discussed previously.…”

Section: Natural Language As a New Paradigm For Biologymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Natural languages and RNA virus evolution

Ariza‐Mateos,

Briones,

Perales

et al. 2023

The Journal of Physiology

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Information concepts from physics, mathematics and computer science support many areas of research in biology. Their focus is on objective information, which provides correlations and patterns related to objects, processes, marks and signals. In these approaches only the quantitative aspects of the meaning of the information is relevant. In other areas of biology, ‘meaningful information’, which is subjective in nature, relies on the physiology of the organism's sensory organs and on the interpretation of the perceived signals, which is then translated into action, even if this is only mental (in brained animals). Information is involved, in terms of both amount and quality. Here we contextualize and review the main theories that deal with ‘meaningful‐information’ at a molecular level from different areas of natural language research, namely biosemiotics, code‐biology, biocommunication and biohermeneutics. As this information mediates between the organism and its environment, we emphasize how such theories compare with the neo‐Darwinian treatment of genetic information, and how they project onto the rapid evolution of RNA viruses. image

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Section: Natural Language As a New Paradigm For Biologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Natural Language As a New Paradigm For Biologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Natural Language As a New Paradigm For Biologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Natural Language As a New Paradigm For Biologymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Natural languages and RNA virus evolution

Ariza‐Mateos,

Briones,

Perales

et al. 2023

The Journal of Physiology

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“…Many others have pursued the biosemiotic realities of subcellular life. [69,[159][160][161][162][163][164][165][166][167][168][169][170].…”

Section: Biosemiotics and Code Biologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Why is Abiogenesis Such a Tough Nut to Crack?

Abel

2023

Preprint

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The latest life-origin literature is reviewed, along with grouping and classification of the most enduring models of abiogenesis. New trends are identified in origin-of-life thought. Astrobiology continues to deal mostly with inorganic and very elementary organic reactions in extreme environments. Nonequilibrium thermodynamics has received a great deal of attention. Attempts have been made to relate Bejan’s Constructal Law to life and abiogenesis. RNA World preclusions only seem to have grown, while ribozyme/peptide models have expanded. The biosemiotic movement and code biology is gaining influence in refining a more complete description of life. Prof James Tour at Rice University in a fourteen-lecture series lists a number of synthetic biochemical hurtles remaining that still need to be overcome. But the need for some sort of informational recipe, instruction, steering and control now seems to be the most prominent area of focus and concern. Even a protometabolism needed active selection and controls rather than mere constraints or law. The latest literature still does not elucidate how protometabolism was orchestrated in an inanimate, pre-evolutionary environment.

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The Biosynthesis of Proteins for Nano Engines as a Normative Process

Beekman,

Jochemsen

2023

Biosemiotics

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In this article two questions are discussed with regard to semiosis in protein biosynthesis for nano engines. (1) What kind of semiosis is involved in the construction of these proteins? and (2) How can we explain the semiotic process observed? With regard to the first issue we draw attention to comparisons between semiosis in protein biosynthesis and human natural language. The notion of normativity appears to be of great importance for both. A comparison also demonstrates differences. Nevertheless, because of the normative symbolic information processing in it, we suggest to employ the term symbolic reference (employed in linguistics as a distinguishing feature of human language) to indicate the semiotic processes in protein biosynthesis. With regard to explaining semiosis in protein synthesis we compare different approaches. We conclude that a Kantian approach should be preferred. In such an approach strengths of the mechanistic and organicist approaches can be combined, and the observed symbolic information processing acknowledged.

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The lower threshold as a unifying principle between Code Biology and Biosemiotics

Cited by 6 publications

References 18 publications

Natural languages and RNA virus evolution

Natural languages and RNA virus evolution

Why is Abiogenesis Such a Tough Nut to Crack?

The Biosynthesis of Proteins for Nano Engines as a Normative Process

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