Protosemiosis: agency with reduced representation capacity.
Protosemiosis: agency with reduced representation capacity.
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10.1007/s12304-014-9219-7
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2015-04-01
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1.6
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Vehkavaara, Tommi
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Sharov, Alexei A.;Vehkavaara, Tommi
Life has semiotic nature; and as life forms differ in their complexity, functionality, and adaptability, we assume that forms of semiosis also vary accordingly. Here we propose a criterion to distinguish between the primitive kind of semiosis, which we call “protosemiosis” (following Prodi) from the advanced kind of semiosis, or “eusemiosis”. In protosemiosis, agents associate signs directly with actions without considering objects, whereas in eusemiosis, agents associate signs with objects and only then possibly with actions. Protosemiosis started from the origin of life, and eusemiosis started when evolving agents acquired the ability to track and classify objects. Eusemiosis is qualitatively different from protosemiosis because it can not be reduced to a small number of specific signaling pathways. Proto-signs can be classified into proto-icons that signal via single specific interaction, proto-indexes that combine several functions, and proto-symbols that are processed by a universal subagent equipped with a set of heritable adapters. Prefix “proto” is used here to characterize signs at the protosemiotic level. Although objects are not recognized by protosemiotic agents, they can be reliably reconstructed by human observers. In summary, protosemiosis is a primitive kind of semiosis that supports “know-how” without “know-what”. Without studying protosemiosis, the biosemiotics theory would be incomplete.
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DOI：
10.1098/rspb.1979.0086
发表时间：
1979-01-01
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY SERIES B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
影响因子：
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作者：
GOULD, SJ;LEWONTIN, RC
通讯作者：
LEWONTIN, RC
影响因子：
3.2
作者：
Bettenbrock, Katja;Sauter, Thomas;Gilles, Ernst-Dieter
通讯作者：
Gilles, Ernst-Dieter
影响因子：
1.6
作者：
Alexander, Victoria N.
通讯作者：
Alexander, Victoria N.
影响因子：
1.6
作者：
Barbieri, Marcello
通讯作者：
Barbieri, Marcello
影响因子：
7.2
作者：
Fox, George E.
通讯作者：
Fox, George E.