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Our universe is Azathoth’s one brain cell." " https://lnkd.in/gfkWWFnS View in LinkedIn

DIRECTION OF EVOLUTION. “Seen in retrospect, evolution as a whole doubtless had a general direction, from simple to complex, from dependence on to relative independence of the environment, to greater and greater autonomy of individuals, greater and greater development of sense organs and nervous systems conveying and processing information about the state of the organism's surroundings, and finally greater and greater consciousness. You can call this direction progress or by some other name.” (Theodosius Dobzhansky). https://lnkd.in/gpfbgQFx View in LinkedIn

THE BEGINNINGS. “When prokaryotic cells gave up their individuality in order to live in organisms, endosemiosis (communication between cells in an organism) started. “ https://lnkd.in/dATmMuTJ View in LinkedIn

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

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE features this weekend a chapter called ‘The translation of a sign into another system of signs’ by Korbus Morais, of University of the Free State, South Africa. This article concerns biosemiotics, and is an interesting take on communication in nature. From page 108 in this book. https://lnkd.in/dATmMuTJ View in LinkedIn

Limestone in Banyoles forms a carbonic acid sculpted karst geology with underground caverns and water originating from the 300-400 meter deep gypsum deposits in the mountains at Beuda. View in LinkedIn

FIRST SPACE PROTEIN. “This is the first report of a protein from any extra-terrestrial source. Very high 2H content indicates proto-solar disc or molecular cloud origin. FeO3Fe groups at each end are of a type that could split H2O upon absorption of photons. The existence of a unique chain length suggests that there could be a functionality conferring a replication advantage.” This protein has not been seen on Earth before. https://lnkd.in/d_PBRBQD View in LinkedIn