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}John - yes, I agree with your comment:
"It's a pity that Uexküll, Rosen, and Margulis had never read
Peirce."
But key biosemioticians of today have read all of them - i.e.,
Hoffmeyer, Kull, Emmeche etc.
And key physicists have also explored Peirce [Josephson and Koichiro
Matsuno, biophysics].
Edwina
On Sat 21/10/17 4:59 PM , John F Sowa [email protected] sent:
On 10/21/2017 12:49 PM, [email protected] [1] wrote:
> So my chapter leans more to the biological/biosemiotic side;
> but I think the essential ideas are the same.
I agree. I subscribed to an email list on Rosen's ideas for a
while, but I stopped because it was generating too much email.
I am very sympathetic to the work on zoo- and bio-semiotics.
Uexküll is also important. And I like to quote Lynn Margulis:
> The growth, reproduction, and communication of these moving,
> alliance-forming bacteria become isomorphic with our thought,
> with our happiness, our sensitivities and stimulations.
My only quibble is that she should have said 'homomorphic' (similar
form), not 'isomorphic' (equal form). In any case, see "Gaia is a
tough bitch':
https://www.edge.org/documents/ThirdCulture/n-Ch.7.html [2]
Note that on the same page I cited (EP 2:241) Peirce said that
the reader "will be inclined to see an anthropomorphic, or even
a zoomorphic, ... element in all our conceptions..."
It's a pity that Uexküll, Rosen, and Margulis had never read
Peirce.
John
Links:
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http://webmail.primus.ca/javascript:top.opencompose(\'[email protected]\',\'\',\'\',\'\')
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http://webmail.primus.ca/parse.php?redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.edge.org%2Fdocuments%2FThirdCulture%2Fn-Ch.7.html
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