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A note on life as meaning-making machinery

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Citation Information: Semiotica. Volume 2006, Issue 158, Pages 357–364, ISSN (Online) 1613-3692, ISSN (Print) 0037-1998, DOI: 10.1515/SEM.2006.013, April 2006

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2006-04-28

Abstract

In order to support the goal of comprehensive detection of life with appropriate conceptual tools we should have a clear definition of life. However, it is known that the definition of life is far from satisfactory and it is doubtful whether a definition of life is possible or needed. In this paper, I suggest that it is possible to approach life from a biosemiotic perspective as a meaning-making process, i.e., a process that yields the system's specific response to an indeterminate signal.

Keywords: definition of life; meaning-making; biosemiotics; linguistic metaphor; Gregory Bateson

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