A preliminary dummy...
All are welcome to post comments. To make a separate new postings, you have to be inscribed into the blog as a contributor (as you know, for all group blogs, this is the single editorial principle). But even if you are not, you are welcome to email to one of the contributors a letter, commentary, question, or brief essay that he or she can post, clearly stating your name as author in the beginning.
How to post new postings:
1. see if you are logged into the blog: See upper right corner: If you see a "sign out" sign, you are logged in. - Otherwise click on Log in, and use your email address and blogger password to login.
2. When logged in, you may see the word "Dashbord" in the upper right corner. (If you click on that, you may be able to edit your profile etc. Then click on the relevant "View blog" sign for the actual blog.)
3. When logged in, and you see in the upper right corner the sequence "New Post / Customize / Sign out", click "New Post".
4. Edit your post. (Here, using Firefox as browser is preferable). Remember to give your post a title. (You may invent a new lable or use existing ones). Press Publish or Save to return and go on later. (When logged into the blog, you may also re-edit your own postings later on).
How to introduce yourself
Those inscribed may create introductions to their research interests etc. by their blogger identity profile including there linking to a personal website. Newcomers and other readers are welcome to leave a self-introduction by commenting to this post here.
Sunday, February 4, 2007
Self-introductions
This post is meant to leave room for anyone interested in biosemiotics to leave comments below with self-introductions, in order to establish a space for more informal communication. However, we'll like to be able to get back to you, so please also indicate a website or an email address where we can contact you. Thanks, and welcome!
Saturday, February 3, 2007
Introduction to the biosemiosis blog
Here is an ultra-brief intro to what biosemiosis is, that is, the natural processes of biosemiosis, and the scientific study of such processes.
The process of sign ("information") production, transfer, modification, translation, and interpretation are all called semiosic processes. They involve living beings, and life is only possible because of semiosis - biosemiosis. As one of the pioneers of biosemiotics, Tom Sebeok said, the process of message exchanges, or semiosis, is an indispensable characteristic of all terrestrial life forms. It is this capacity for containing, replicating, and expressing messages, of extracting their signification, that, in fact, distinguishes them more from the nonliving than any other traits often cited. (Of course, human agents can make artifacts such as computers or robots, and use these to simulate communication). "The study of the twin processes of communication and signification can be regarded as ultimately a branch of the life science, or as belonging in large part to nature, in some part to culture, which is, of course, also a part of nature." (Sebeok 1991: 22) "The life science and the sign science thus mutually imply one another." (Sebeok 1994: 114)
The term biosemiotics is a label of the scientific and scholarly study of biosemiosis. See also more on definitions on the international website of Biosemiotics: www.biosemiotics.org
This blog is intended as an additional communication channel for all interested in research (scientific and scholarly) into biosemiosic processes. As a blog, it is more informal than standard university web pages — contributors and commentators can feel free to participate in the debate and to exchange information without having to go through any process of evaluation by peers or experts first. We'll try to keep a sober, deliberately cool and focused form of discourse, and the blog will be a moderated one (by Claus Emmeche, Jesper Hoffmeyer, Kalevi Kull, Don Favareau and Marcello Barbieri). If you like to be technically 'inscribed' allowing you to make new postings and not only comment on preexisting ones, please contact one of us).
We welcome contributions from persons outside the team listed, suggestions for new contributors, and comments from all blog readers. Comments may be posted with a little time delay as they may have to be approved by one of the team members, to avoid advertisement spam. Have fun!
The process of sign ("information") production, transfer, modification, translation, and interpretation are all called semiosic processes. They involve living beings, and life is only possible because of semiosis - biosemiosis. As one of the pioneers of biosemiotics, Tom Sebeok said, the process of message exchanges, or semiosis, is an indispensable characteristic of all terrestrial life forms. It is this capacity for containing, replicating, and expressing messages, of extracting their signification, that, in fact, distinguishes them more from the nonliving than any other traits often cited. (Of course, human agents can make artifacts such as computers or robots, and use these to simulate communication). "The study of the twin processes of communication and signification can be regarded as ultimately a branch of the life science, or as belonging in large part to nature, in some part to culture, which is, of course, also a part of nature." (Sebeok 1991: 22) "The life science and the sign science thus mutually imply one another." (Sebeok 1994: 114)
The term biosemiotics is a label of the scientific and scholarly study of biosemiosis. See also more on definitions on the international website of Biosemiotics: www.biosemiotics.org
This blog is intended as an additional communication channel for all interested in research (scientific and scholarly) into biosemiosic processes. As a blog, it is more informal than standard university web pages — contributors and commentators can feel free to participate in the debate and to exchange information without having to go through any process of evaluation by peers or experts first. We'll try to keep a sober, deliberately cool and focused form of discourse, and the blog will be a moderated one (by Claus Emmeche, Jesper Hoffmeyer, Kalevi Kull, Don Favareau and Marcello Barbieri). If you like to be technically 'inscribed' allowing you to make new postings and not only comment on preexisting ones, please contact one of us).
We welcome contributions from persons outside the team listed, suggestions for new contributors, and comments from all blog readers. Comments may be posted with a little time delay as they may have to be approved by one of the team members, to avoid advertisement spam. Have fun!
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