Journal
BIOSEMIOTICS
Volume 2, Issue 2, Pages 205-220Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s12304-009-9041-9
Keywords
Subjectivity; Sociality; Triadic structure of subjectivity; Purposiveness; Microdynamic structural polymorphism; Freedom at the molecular and cellular levels
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A biosemiotic view of living things is presented that supersedes the mechanistic view of life prevalent in biology today. Living things are active agents with autonomous subjectivity, whose structure is triadic, consisting of the individual organism, its Umwelt and the society. Sociality inheres in every living thing since the very origin of life on the earth. The temporality of living things is guided by the purpose to live, which works as the semantic boundary condition for the processes of embodiment of the subjectivity. Freedom at the molecular and cellular levels allows autonomy and spontaneity to emerge even in single cell organisms, and the presence of the dimension of mind in every living thing is deduced. Living things transcend their individualness, as they live in historically formed higher order structure consisting of the lineage-species and the society. They also transcend materiality, having the dimension of mind.
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