A note on life as meaning-making machinery

Yari Neuman

doi:10.1515/SEM.2006.013

A note on life as meaning-making machinery

Yari Neuman

School of Education

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In order to support the goal of comprehensive detection of life with appropriate conceptual tools we should have a clear definition of life. However, it is known that the definition of life is far from satisfactory and it is doubtful whether a definition of life is possible or needed. In this paper, I suggest that it is possible to approach life from a biosemiotic perspective as a meaning-making process, i.e., a process that yields the system's specific response to an indeterminate signal.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	357-364
Number of pages	8
Journal	Semiotica
Volume	158
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1515/SEM.2006.013
State	Published - 1 Dec 2006

Keywords

Biosemiotics
Definition of life
Gregory Bateson
Linguistic metaphor
Meaning-making

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Language and Linguistics
Linguistics and Language
Literature and Literary Theory

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