Biosemiotics
August 14, 2026
Yoshiya Murabe
Autopoiesis, originally developed by Maturana and Varela, has been influential across multiple disciplines, but its application to rehabilitation medicine remains theoretically underdeveloped. This paper proposes Neurophenomenological Rehabilitation, a theoretical framework for understanding recovery not as the restoration of isolated bodily functions, but as the reorganization and expansion of...
Biosemiotics
January 16, 2025
Anand Venkatraman, Anand Viswanathan, Shyam Rao
Information from our senses, memories and thoughts is bound together into a unified whole that constitutes our experience of our world, our Umwelt. However, our ability to investigate our Umwelt through standard Western-derived neuroscience is limited, because of the third-person approach that undergirds the field. Achieving greater coherence in our understanding requires the addition of an...
Biosemiotics
April 1, 2023
Yogi Hale Hendlin
3 citations
Biosemioticians seldom discuss consciousness. Whether that was a conscious decision or not, semiosis rather than consciousness has been our domain of research. We replace some of the problems associated with cuts in the differentia specifica of consciousness with other capacities, namely, the capacity to interpret according to species-specific constraints. Agency has been variously defined in...
Biosemiotics
November 3, 2022
Alin Olteanu
10 citations
Abstract This commentary addresses the concept of learning stemming from Eva Jablonka and Simona Ginsburg’s theory of the emergence of consciousness. Jablonka and Ginsburg find strong support in biosemiotics for their argument that learning offers an evolutionary transition marker for the emergence of consciousness. Indeed, biosemiotics embraces a view on evolution that integrates both...
Biosemiotics
May 1, 2022
I. Surov
The paper introduces mathematical encoding for subjective experience and meaning in natural cognition. The code is based on a quantum-theoretic qubit structure supplementing classical bit with circular dimension, functioning as a process-causal template for representation of contexts relative to the basis decision. The qubit state space is demarcated in categories of emotional experience of...
Biosemiotics
April 1, 2012
Angelo N. M. Recchia-Luciani
The present paper proposes a definition for the complex polysemic concepts of consciousness and awareness (in humans as well as in other species), and puts forward the idea of a progressive ontological development of consciousness from a state of ‘childhood’ awareness, in order to explain that humans are not only able to manipulate objects, but also their mental representations. The paper...
Biosemiotics
April 1, 2012
Shahram Rafieian
A human being is the simultaneous composite of several different levels of being, from atomic and subatomic to the level of complex social interaction, and these levels are nested within the individual hierarchically (lower levels giving rise to higher levels, etc.). One of the most important and influential approaches developed in the history of science has been that of systems theory and...