“Neural coding” is a popular metaphor in neuroscience, where objective properties of the
world are communicated to the brain in the form of spikes. Here I argue that this metaphor is …

Life is a complex phenomenon that not only requires individual self-producing and self-
sustaining systems but also a historical-collective organization of those individual systems …

" Natur!. Wir leben mitten in ihr, und sind ihr fremde. Sie spricht unaufhörlich mit uns, und
verrät uns ihr Geheimnis nicht. These are the words from GC Tobler¶ s prose fragment" Die …

The apparently purposeful nature of living systems is obtained through a sophisticated
network of semiotic controls whereby biochemical, physiological and behavioral processes …

This article attempts to touch on some contexts and associations of the semiotic view in
biology, by making a short review of the history of the trends and ideas of biosemiotics, or …

Genetic algorithms instruct sophisticated biological organization. Three qualitative kinds of
sequence complexity exist: random (RSC), ordered (OSC), and functional (FSC). FSC alone …

To what degree could chaos and complexity have organized a Peptide or RNA World of
crude yet necessarily integrated protometabolism? How far could such protolife evolve in the …

In this article, we discuss the current status of ecolinguistics and key issues in the field
regarding the positioning of ecolinguistics, and the research objects, aims and …

The present paper examines natural language as a dynamical system. The oft-expressed
view of language as “a static system of symbols” is here seen as an element of a larger …

The paper draws a parallel between natural language symbols and the symbolic mode in
living systems. The inextricability of symbols and the dynamics with which they are …