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Informationen zum Autor JESPER HOFFMEYER is Professor in the Biosemiotics Group at the Institute of Molecular Biology at the University of Copenhagen. He has published six books in Danish on social and philosophical aspects of biology and is a regular contributor to leading Danish newspapers. He has been the editor of two major Danish magazines on science, technxnd society, and is presently a member of the board for The Centre for Ethics and Law, University of Copenhagen. Klappentext What propels this journey is Hoffmeyer's attempt to discover how nature could come to mean something to someone-by telling the story of how cells, tissue, organs, plants, animals, even entire ecosystems communicate by signs and signals. Zusammenfassung Presents a journey through the universe of signs in search of how the natural world came to mean something to someone. This book shows that life at its most basic depends on the survival of messages, written in the code of DNA molecules, and on the tiny cell - the fertilized egg - that must interpret the message and from it construct an organism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword1. Signifying On lumps in nothingness, on "not" 2. Forgetting On history and codes: the dialectic of oblivion 3. Repeating On Nature's tendency to acquire habits 4. Inventing On life and self-reference, on subjectivity 5. Opening Up On the sensory universe of creatures: the liberation of the semiosphere 6. Defining The mobile brain: the language of cells 7. Connecting On the triadic ascendance of dualism 8. Sharing On language: existential bioanthropology 9. Uniting Consciousness: the bodily governor within the brain 10. Healing On ethics: reuniting two stories in one body-mindNotes Bibliography Index
