FYI: GR Dear friends and colleagues,
We invite you to join the panel on biosemiotics which will take place at the world congress of semiotics „Signs and Realities“ in Warsaw, Poland, 2–6 September this year. <https://www.semcon2024.com/> The biosemiotics panel – “Unresolved problems in biosemiotics” – was proposed by Don Favareau and me (description below). Deadline for abstracts is 15 April. Please submit <https://www.semcon2024.com/abstrakty> your abstract. With all best wishes Kalevi & Don Fundamentals of semiotics are not yet concisely formulated, theory of meaning making requires still much work in clarification. Biosemiotics has the major responsibility in this work inasmuch biosemiotics concerns the general semiotics. Among the unresolved problems we can recognize, for instance, the following: (a) the minimal conditions for a metabolic system to carry semiosis; (b) the relationship between interpretation, free choice, subjective present, umwelt, agency, logical paradox, and semiosis; (c) the operational typology of prelinguistic signs; (d) the nature of (sign) modality as such; (e) existence (and description) of forms of semiosis that never appear in human communication or in human bodies; etc. We should also pay attention to the perspective methods to be used for providing the solutions. In particular, this concerns the role of mathematical and empirical study methods. This includes several problems, for instance: (x) whether the fundamental semiotic theory can be formulated in mathematical terms; (y) which are the general methods to be used for testing semiotic models. The panel will include a roundtable to discuss the unresolved problems in biosemiotics. We ask all interested scholars to participate in this roundtable and to propose the ideas for solutions.
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