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ORGANISMS AS TRANSLATORS. “If all meaning creation is, per definition, is translation, it means that every living organism is a translator. It further means that one needs to consider translational actions at both infraspecific and interspecific levels. It is not only humans that translate and interpret. Communication is coexistent with life, and life itself is the lower threshold of semiosis.” https://lnkd.in/dATmMuTJ View in LinkedIn

SEMIOSIS, is the process of signification. “Semiosis is any form of activity, conduct, or process that involves signs, including the production of meaning. A sign is anything that communicates a meaning, that is not the sign itself, to the interpreter of the sign. The meaning can be intentional such as a word uttered with a specific meaning, or unintentional, such as a symptom being a sign of a particular medical condition. Signs can communicate through any of the senses, visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, or taste.” https://lnkd.in/dryqzub8 View in LinkedIn

COMMUNICATION. Interestingly, the vast majority of definitions of life ignore communication. For me, life is that which processes information, communicates, replicates and evolves. Without communication a species would not survive and certainly not reproduce. https://lnkd.in/dATmMuTJ View in LinkedIn

HIGH ENERGY ANTIMATTER. “Cosmic ray antiprotons also have a much higher energy than their normal-matter counterparts (protons). They arrive at Earth with a characteristic energy maximum of 2 GeV, indicating their production in a fundamentally different process from cosmic ray protons, which on average have only one-sixth of the energy.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimatter View in LinkedIn

INSTINCT VS REASON. “One needs to rethink the notion of instinct. In particular, the notion that animals act on instinct and humans in reason needs to be reconceptualized to allow for “instinct” in humans and “reason” in non-human living organisms.” https://lnkd.in/dATmMuTJ View in LinkedIn

SPACE WEATHER. “The former ejection of matter in the outer shock wave and the latter production of antimatter in the reverse shock wave are steps in a space weather cycle.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimatter View in LinkedIn

DECEIT. “Further proof of animal’s semiotic ability is their ability to deceive.” https://lnkd.in/dATmMuTJ View in LinkedIn

PULSAR FORCES. “This weathering takes place as "the cold, magnetized relativistic wind launched by the star hits the non-relativistically expanding ejecta, a shock wave system forms in the impact: the outer one propagates in the ejecta, while a reverse shock propagates back towards the star." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimatter View in LinkedIn

HIGHER ORGANISMS. “Their sensory apparatus also provides them with more (species-specific) information about their environment.” https://lnkd.in/dATmMuTJ View in LinkedIn

ANTIMATTER WINDS. “For instance, electron-positron pairs may be formed in pulsars, as a magnetized neutron star rotation cycle shears electron-positron pairs from the star surface. Therein the antimatter forms a wind that crashes upon the ejecta of the progenitor supernovae.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimatter View in LinkedIn