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THE BRAIN. “The development of a central nervous system in animals provided them with more developed semiotic abilities than organisms without central nervous systems.” https://lnkd.in/dATmMuTJ View in LinkedIn

ONGOING ANTIMATTER PRODUCTION. “Satellite experiments have found evidence of positrons and a few antiprotons in primary cosmic rays, amounting to less than 1% of the particles in primary cosmic rays. This antimatter cannot all have been created in the Big Bang, but is instead attributed to have been produced by cyclic processes at high energies.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimatter View in LinkedIn

JET PLASMA. “Recent observations indicate black holes and neutron stars produce vast amounts of positron-electron plasma via the jets.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimatter View in LinkedIn

You cannot make it up. On the edge of St Daniel on Girona’s outskirts. View in LinkedIn

OBSERVERS CREATING A UNIVERSE. “If Wheeler was right that we decide the physical laws, by our very choices as observers of the universe, then, due to their important and bold contributions to physics, he and his students are responsible for many preposterous features of our universe.” A phenomenal essay. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-12946-4_5 View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS this single weekend on biosemiotics, and a delightful article that grasps the importance of communication and translation in biology, and that this is critical for survival, and that it is not a uniquely human quality. Our self-absorption in anthropocentric thinking has blinded us to what is sitting in plain sight; we are products of nature and share many qualities, to varying degrees, with many other creatures. https://lnkd.in/dATmMuTJ View in LinkedIn

TRANSLATION KEY. “All communication, from endosemiotics through biosemiotics to eusemiotics, entail translation processes.” https://lnkd.in/dATmMuTJ View in LinkedIn

RARE INSIGHT. “Humans are not the only organisms that translate.” https://lnkd.in/dATmMuTJ View in LinkedIn

HIGHER FUNCTIONS. “A consensus is growing in cognitive ethnology that there is “a continuity between cognition and communication in humans and other animals.” https://lnkd.in/dATmMuTJ View in LinkedIn

THE DANCE IS THE MUSIC. “Even in human beings, meaning-making is not primarily about logical play but about grounded responses to the “Other”, the environment. This does not mean that there is no play, just that there is more than play.” https://lnkd.in/dATmMuTJ View in LinkedIn