Signs of Meaning in the Universe - Jesper Hoffmeyer

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Résumé :
What propels this journey is Hoffmeyer's attempt to discover how nature could come to mean something to someone-by telling the story of how cells, tissue, organs, plants, animals, even entire ecosystems communicate by signs and signals.

Biographie:
JESPER HOFFMEYER is Professor in the Biosemiotics Group at the Institute of Molecular Biology at the University of Copenhagen. He has published six books in Danish on social and philosophical aspects of biology and is a regular contributor to leading Danish newspapers. He has been the editor of two major Danish magazines on science, technxnd society, and is presently a member of the board for The Centre for Ethics and Law, University of Copenhagen.

Sommaire:
Foreword1. Signifying
On lumps in nothingness, on not
2. Forgetting
On history and codes: the dialectic of oblivion
3. Repeating
On Nature's tendency to acquire habits
4. Inventing
On life and self-reference, on subjectivity
5. Opening Up
On the sensory universe of creatures: the liberation of the semiosphere
6. Defining
The mobile brain: the language of cells
7. Connecting
On the triadic ascendance of dualism
8. Sharing
On language: existential bioanthropology
9. Uniting
Consciousness: the bodily governor within the brain
10. Healing
On ethics: reuniting two stories in one body-mindNotes
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Index