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Evolutionary Biosemiotics and Multilevel Construction Networks

Overview of attention for article published in Biosemiotics, August 2016
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Title
Evolutionary Biosemiotics and Multilevel Construction Networks
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Biosemiotics, August 2016
DOI 10.1007/s12304-016-9269-0
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Alexei A. Sharov

Abstract

In contrast to the traditional relational semiotics, biosemiotics decisively deviates towards dynamical aspects of signs at the evolutionary and developmental time scales. The analysis of sign dynamics requires constructivism (in a broad sense) to explain how new components such as subagents, sensors, effectors, and interpretation networks are produced by developing and evolving organisms. Semiotic networks that include signs, tools, and subagents are multilevel, and this feature supports the plasticity, robustness, and evolvability of organisms. The origin of life is described here as the emergence of simple self-constructing semiotic networks that progressively increased the diversity of their components and relations. Primitive organisms have no capacity to classify and track objects; thus, we need to admit the existence of proto-signs that directly regulate activities of agents without being associated with objects. However, object recognition and handling became possible in eukaryotic species with the development of extensive rewritable epigenetic memory as well as sensorial and effector capacities. Semiotic networks are based on sequential and recursive construction, where each step produces components (i.e., agents, scaffolds, signs, and resources) that are needed for the following steps of construction. Construction is not limited to repair and reproduction of what already exists or is unambiguously encoded, it also includes production of new components and behaviors via learning and evolution. A special case is the emergence of new levels of organization known as metasystem transition. Multilevel semiotic networks reshape the phenotype of organisms by combining a mosaic of features developed via learning and evolution of cooperating and/or conflicting subagents.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 27 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 4 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 11%
Student > Bachelor 3 11%
Student > Master 2 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 4%
Other 5 19%
Unknown 9 33%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 22%
Computer Science 3 11%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 7%
Psychology 2 7%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 4%
Other 5 19%
Unknown 8 30%
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#7,336,264
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#46
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