Biosemiotics (bios=life & semion=sign) is an interdisciplinary
science that studies communication and signification in living
systems. Communication is the essential characteristic of life. An
organism is a message to future generations that specifies how to
survive and reproduce. Any autocatalytic system transfers
information (i.e. initial conditions) to its progeny so that
daughter systems will eventually reach the same state as their
parent. Self-reproducing systems have a semantic closure because
they define themselves in their progeny. A sign (defined in a
broadest sense) is an object that is a part of some
self-reproducing system. A sign is always useful for the system and
its value can be determined by its contribution to the reproductive
value of the entire system. The major trend in the evolution of
signs is the increase of their complexity via development of new
hierarchical levels, i.e., metasystem transitions. This book
presents new research in this dynamic field.
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