From complementarity to semiosis

pp. 49-68

in: Felice Cimatti, A biosemiotic ontology, Berlin, Springer, 2018

Abstract

Giorgio Prodi poses a fundamental philosophical problem: how was the emergence of immaterial meaning possible within the world of material things? In order to answer this question, Prodi develops an original relational ontology. The world is made of relations between things, not of things. The world is relation; semiosis is relation: it follows that the world itself is semiosis. This chapter will expose Prodi's natural history of meaning.