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PRODUCTS OF BIOLOGY. “One of the -- disturbing -- findings of biosemiotics is that the more we know about biology the more that we understand that the supposedly higher functions of humans (creativity, faith, understanding, language) are (also) biological in nature.” https://lnkd.in/dATmMuTJ 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

ROOTED IN BIOLOGY. “Biosemiotics argue that meaning-making is not a purely logical system of differences at play, but part of the tools that have evolved to assist organisms to survive and adapt.” https://lnkd.in/dATmMuTJ View in LinkedIn

BOTTOM UP. “As Deacon puts it eloquently: “ Minds were not somehow grafted onto biological systems; mentality emerged from and grew out of organisms during their evolution.” https://lnkd.in/dATmMuTJ View in LinkedIn