Year: 2022

UNIQUENESS. “We could thus ask: If this is true, could the converse not also be true? Could “lower” life forms not also have communication type capacities? Are our cognitive capacities so unique?” https://lnkd.in/dATmMuTJ View in LinkedIn

FEW CRITICAL AMINO ACIDS. “Small changes (e.g., replacement of one amino acid by another) can sometimes cause large changes in structure (this is not always true). Most proteins (particularly the globular proteins) have very similar amino acid composition. A major part of the protein structure acts as a scaffold for the active site. The active site is composed of a relatively few amino acids.” https://lnkd.in/duf9FtUq View in LinkedIn

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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

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

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

RELATEDNESS. “One of the key tenets of biosemiotic thinking is the unity of life...all life has a common ancestor and no living organism, no matter how far evolved (like humans) stops being a biological entity.” 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

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