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Particular scientific fields like molecular biology, cognitive ethology, cognitive science, robotics, and neurobiology deal with information processes at various levels and thus spontaneously contribute to knowledge about biosemiosis (sign action in living systems). However, biosemiotics proper is not yet a specific disciplinary research programme, but a general perspective on the need for investigating the role that "sign" use plays in life processes, and attempts to integrate such findings, and to build a semiotic foundation for biology. It may also help to resolve some forms of Cartesian dualism that still haunt the philosophy of mind. By describing the continuity between body and mind, or by showing this to be a false or at least unhelpful distinction, biosemiotics may also help us to understand how human "mindedness" may naturally emerge from more primitive processes of embodied animal "knowing."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosemiotics
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the term 'biosemiotics' is taken from the term 'semiotics' which is here:
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Semiotics, also called semiotic studies or (in the Saussurean tradition) semiology, is the study of signs and sign processes (semiosis), indication, designation, likeness, analogy, metaphor, symbolism, signification, and communication. Semiotics is closely related to the field of linguistics, which, for its part, studies the structure and meaning of language more specifically. Semiotics is often divided into three branches:
- Semantics: Relation between signs and the things to which they refer; their denotata, or meaning
- Syntactics: Relations among signs in formal structures
- Pragmatics: Relation between signs and the effects they have on the people who use them
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"Language is no longer regarded as peripheral to our grasp of the world we live in, but as central to it. Words are not mere vocal labels or communicational adjuncts superimposed upon an already given order of things. They are collective products of social interaction, essential instruments through which human beings constitute and articulate their world. This typically twentieth-centery view of language has profoundly influenced developments throughout the whole range of human sciences. It is particularly marked in linguistics, philosophy, psychology, sociology and anthropology".[7]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_de_Saussure
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Well, I was going to try, and still may, try and tie all this into the Language of the Trees....the above research is trying to articulate what poety has been at for a long time...looking about, I happened on Robert Grave's Paris Review interview, which I read when very young with a very dour disposition, and now find I smile, just a bit, while reading, though circumstances are no less dour!!
link to interview:
http://books.google.com/books?id=B-hxaHat4kYC&pg=PA92&lpg=PA92&dq=the+language+of+the+trees+robert+graves&source=bl&ots=pwmmivHbIC&sig=zI3yTGb35g17COUn7n1yBHrPuXU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=cywuT-GxIcPaiQK-p9WxCg&sqi=2&ved=0CFoQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=the%20language%20of%20the%20trees%20robert%20graves&f=false
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