> S: The difference between us and animals is basically language. > S: Why not 'check out' 'Biosemiotics'? > > STAN
Dear Stan, I don't understand the "bio" in this. If we distinguish between two systems of reference for knowledge -- discursive knowledge to be attributed to interhuman communication, and personal knowledge to be attributed to human psychologies -- the latter one is biologically embedded by the body, but the former is only embedded by human minds (which are of course embodied). Knowledge can then also be globalized and become person-independent. In other words: discursive knowledge is generated bottom-up, but control can be top-down. Shouldn't it therefore be "psycho-semiotics"? "Bio-semiotics" is only valid for personalized knowledge. (For the good order, let me hasten to add that the two systems of knowledge -- the interpersonal and the personal ones -- are reflexive to each other.) Best wishes, Loet ________________________________ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 l...@leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ _______________________________________________ fis mailing list fis@listas.unizar.es https://webmail.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis
