Biosemiotics as one of the Sciences of Complexity
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https://doi.org/10.48168/cc012020-002Keywords:
History of science, Philosophy of science, Epistemology, Complexity Sciences, Communication of living systemsAbstract
This article raises a thesis: biosemiotics can be considered as one of the sciences of complexity, alongside the other already classical and well-known sciences such as chaos, non-equilibrium thermodynamics, complex networks and others. For this, the state of the art in the relations between biosemiotics and complexity is elaborated, a state of the question, indeed, very limited. The general strategy consists of presenting a general, scientific, philosophical and historical picture that explains at the same time what biosemiotics consists of and what its particularities are. In all cases, the idea is clear: signs are real phenomena typical of living systems. And the sciences of complexity are life sciences.
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