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Pathways to the origin and evolution of meanings in the universe
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: The Nature of Meaning and Its Components -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Towards Integrating Studies of Meanings with Science -- 1.1 Crossing the Great Paradigm Divide -- 1.2 What is Meaning? -- 1.3 The Origin of Life -- 1.4 Semiotic Agency -- 1.5 Mind and Consciousness -- 1.6 Semiogenesis and Learning -- 1.7 Global Dimensions of Biosemiosis -- 1.8 Conclusions -- Declaration -- References
Chapter 2 Pathways to the Understanding of Signs and Meanings in the Biosphere: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Part One: A Brief History of the Conceptualization of Signs and Meanings in the Natural Sciences -- 2.2.1 Pre-Modern Theories of Sign and Meaning -- 2.2.2 The Exclusion of a Theory of Meaning in Modern Science -- 2.2.3 The Realization of the Need for a Theory of Signs and Meanings in Modern Science -- 2.3 Part Two: Towards a Future Science of Signs and Meaning
2.3.1 Biosemiotics: Searching for the Most General and Fundamental Aspects of the Sign Relation -- 2.3.2 Major Concepts and Terms Used in Biosemiotic Analysis -- 2.3.3 Semiotic Realism -- 2.4 Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Declaration -- References -- Chapter 3 Is it a Janus-Faced World After All? Physics is Not Reductionist -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Top-Down Causation in Biology -- 3.3 Top-Down Causation in Physics and Chemistry -- 3.4 Multilevel Probabilistic Systems -- References -- Chapter 4 Semiotic Ground and the Hierarchic Nature of Information
4.1 From Information to Semiosis: Why We Can't Seem to Even Start -- 4.2 Three Embedded Information Theories -- 4.3 Computation and Structural Information -- 4.4 Semiotic Grounding -- 4.5 A Possible Bridge? -- 4.6 Preliminary Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 5 Ontology and Semiotics of Memory -- 5.1 Semiotic Realism versus Semiotic Constructivism -- 5.2 Protosemiosis: Recording Without Reading or 'Heritability' of the Universe Before Earth -- 5.3 Biological Memory: Between a Particle and a Wave -- 5.4 Social Memory: From Nature to Nurture -- 5.5 Memory and the Origin of Language
5.6 Conclusions -- Declaration -- References -- Chapter 6 Meanings, Their Hierarchy, and Evolution -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Hierarchogenesis and Its Stages During the General Evolution of the Universe -- 6.3 Potential Meanings During the Abiotic Period of the Evolution of the Universe -- 6.4 Evolution of Meanings in the Biological Systems -- 6.5 The Evolution of Meanings in Human Societies and the Relationship between Hierarchies of Substance and Semantics -- Declarations -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 7 Semiotics of Potential Meanings -- 7.1 Introduction
edited by Alexei A. Sharov and George E. Mikhailovsky.