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Semiosis and reflectivity in life and consciousness

Semiosis and reflectivity in life and consciousness ABIR U. IGAMBERDIEV Semiotic relations in living systems Biological systems are characterized by the presence of a semiotic structure in the absence of a subject, i.e., of the language's owner separated from the language itself. Significative structures are expressed inside the generalized model of a biological system, the hypercyclic structure, in which the devices (catalysts) realize the production of the matrices for their own reproduction (Eigen and Schuster 1979). In such a structure, the symbolic relations are reproduced continually (Igamberdiev 1997). Biological systems therefore possess an essential self-referential semiotic property which determines its autonomy from the environment (Maturana 1970; Varela 1979). How can semiotic features of a system be deduced from its dynamic properties and what physical precondition underlies the emergence of biological symbolic structures? This question corresponds to the problem of the relation of life to inorganic matter. The non-linearity itself cannot contain the basic pattern from which the semiotic structure logically evolves. It is preconditioned by the quantum non-demolition measurements providing the 'dualization' of the reality into the measuring one and the one being measured (Igamberdiev 1992). In living systems, we face the necessity of the general criterion for quantum reduction (Penrose 1989: 367-373) which is http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Semiotica - Journal of the International Association for Semiotic Studies / Revue de l'Association Internationale de Sémiotique de Gruyter

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de Gruyter
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Copyright © 2009 Walter de Gruyter
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0037-1998
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1613-3692
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10.1515/semi.1999.123.3-4.231
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ABIR U. IGAMBERDIEV Semiotic relations in living systems Biological systems are characterized by the presence of a semiotic structure in the absence of a subject, i.e., of the language's owner separated from the language itself. Significative structures are expressed inside the generalized model of a biological system, the hypercyclic structure, in which the devices (catalysts) realize the production of the matrices for their own reproduction (Eigen and Schuster 1979). In such a structure, the symbolic relations are reproduced continually (Igamberdiev 1997). Biological systems therefore possess an essential self-referential semiotic property which determines its autonomy from the environment (Maturana 1970; Varela 1979). How can semiotic features of a system be deduced from its dynamic properties and what physical precondition underlies the emergence of biological symbolic structures? This question corresponds to the problem of the relation of life to inorganic matter. The non-linearity itself cannot contain the basic pattern from which the semiotic structure logically evolves. It is preconditioned by the quantum non-demolition measurements providing the 'dualization' of the reality into the measuring one and the one being measured (Igamberdiev 1992). In living systems, we face the necessity of the general criterion for quantum reduction (Penrose 1989: 367-373) which is

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Semiotica - Journal of the International Association for Semiotic Studies / Revue de l'Association Internationale de Sémiotique – de Gruyter

Published: Jan 1, 1999

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