Semiosphere

The semiosphere is a concept in biosemiotic theory, according to which - contrary to ideas of nature determining sense and experience^[1]^[2]^{[dead link‍]}^[3] - the phenomenal world is a creative and logical structure of processes of semiosis where signs operate together to produce sense and experience.^[4]^[5]

^ Dickinson, Adam (2011). "Pataphysics and Biosemiotics in Lisa Robertson's Office for Soft Architecture". Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. 18 (3). Oxford University Press: 615–636. doi:10.1093/isle/isr084. JSTOR 44087009. Retrieved 11 May 2021. Biosemiotics proposes the primacy of the 'semiosphere' over the biosphere; it is concerned with living systems as nested sets of surfaces. The surface is where multiple signaling processes act on the cell membrane according to contextual recognition.
^ Sebeok, Thomas A. (2001). Signs: An Introduction to Semiotics (PDF) (2 ed.). Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press Incorporated. p. 33. ISBN 0-8020-8472-9. Our intuition of reality is a consequence of a mutual interaction between the two: Jakob von Uexküll's private world of elementary sensations (Merkzeichen, 'perceptual signs') coupled to their meaningful transforms into action impulses (Wirkzeichen, 'operation signs'); and the phenomenal world (Umwelt), that is, the subjective world each animal models out of its 'true' environment (Natur, 'reality'), which reveals itself solely through signs.
^ Alter, Joseph S. (2015). "Gattungswesen - The Ecology of Species-Being: Alienation, Biosemiotics, and Social Theory". Anthropos. 110 (2). Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH: 515–531. doi:10.5771/0257-9774-2015-2-515. JSTOR 43861976. Retrieved 11 May 2021. Any environment accommodates numerous organisms, and the plurality of Umwelt in communication constitutes a semiosphere. Semiospheres are emergent systems structured by the triadic logic of signs rather than ecological niches structured by adaptive mechanisms.
^ Steiner, Lina (2003). "Toward an Ideal Universal Community: Lotman's Revisiting of the Enlightenment and Romanticism". Comparative Literature Studies. 40 (1). Penn State University Press: 37–53. doi:10.1353/cls.2003.0010. JSTOR 40247371. S2CID 161074537. Retrieved 11 May 2021. It is important that we see the semiosphere not merely as a network of human and artificial intelligence, a kind of world-wide technological exchange but, in keeping with Lotman's view, as a membrane of human conscious acts, which makes communication possible, but cannot be reduced to mere communication and exchange of 'know how.'
^ Cite error: The named reference Mandelker was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[1] Dickinson, Adam (2011). "Pataphysics and Biosemiotics in Lisa Robertson's Office for Soft Architecture". Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. 18 (3). Oxford University Press: 615–636. doi:10.1093/isle/isr084. JSTOR 44087009. Retrieved 11 May 2021. Biosemiotics proposes the primacy of the 'semiosphere' over the biosphere; it is concerned with living systems as nested sets of surfaces. The surface is where multiple signaling processes act on the cell membrane according to contextual recognition.

[2] Sebeok, Thomas A. (2001). Signs: An Introduction to Semiotics (PDF) (2 ed.). Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press Incorporated. p. 33. ISBN 0-8020-8472-9. Our intuition of reality is a consequence of a mutual interaction between the two: Jakob von Uexküll's private world of elementary sensations (Merkzeichen, 'perceptual signs') coupled to their meaningful transforms into action impulses (Wirkzeichen, 'operation signs'); and the phenomenal world (Umwelt), that is, the subjective world each animal models out of its 'true' environment (Natur, 'reality'), which reveals itself solely through signs.

[3] Alter, Joseph S. (2015). "Gattungswesen - The Ecology of Species-Being: Alienation, Biosemiotics, and Social Theory". Anthropos. 110 (2). Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH: 515–531. doi:10.5771/0257-9774-2015-2-515. JSTOR 43861976. Retrieved 11 May 2021. Any environment accommodates numerous organisms, and the plurality of Umwelt in communication constitutes a semiosphere. Semiospheres are emergent systems structured by the triadic logic of signs rather than ecological niches structured by adaptive mechanisms.

[4] Steiner, Lina (2003). "Toward an Ideal Universal Community: Lotman's Revisiting of the Enlightenment and Romanticism". Comparative Literature Studies. 40 (1). Penn State University Press: 37–53. doi:10.1353/cls.2003.0010. JSTOR 40247371. S2CID 161074537. Retrieved 11 May 2021. It is important that we see the semiosphere not merely as a network of human and artificial intelligence, a kind of world-wide technological exchange but, in keeping with Lotman's view, as a membrane of human conscious acts, which makes communication possible, but cannot be reduced to mere communication and exchange of 'know how.'

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