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Signs of meaning in the universe /

For three and a half billion years the living creatures of the natural world have been engaged in an increasingly complex and extensive conversation. Cells, tissue, organs, plants, animals, entire populations and ecosystems buzz with communication, incessantly emitting and receiving signals. These s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hoffmeyer, Jesper
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Danés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1996.
Colección:Advances in semiotics.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Signifying: On lumps in nothingness, on "not"
  • Forgetting: On history and codes: The dialectic of oblivion
  • Repeating: On Nature's tendency to acquire habits
  • Inventing: On life and self-reliance, on subjectivity
  • Opening Up: On the sensory universe of creatures: The liberation of the semiosphere
  • Defining: The mobile brain: The language of cells
  • Connecting: On the triadic ascendance of dualism
  • Sharing: On language: Existential bioanthropology
  • Uniting: Consciousness: The bodily governor within the brain
  • Healing: On ethics: Reuniting two stories in one body-mind.