Information and semiosis in living systems

a semiotic approach

pp. 629-656

in: Donald Favareau, Essential readings in biosemiotics, Berlin, Springer, 2009

Abstract

At the Ninth World Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies in 2007, molecular biologist Jesper Hoffmeyer recalls the impetus leading to the founding of "biosemiotics' as a research agenda in Denmark by himself and Claus Emmeche in 1985 thusly: