LEADER 04651nam 22008175 450 001 9910544854003321 005 20240215140503.0 010 $a3-030-89484-3 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-89484-9 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6885495 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6885495 035 $a(CKB)21167788700041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-89484-9 035 $a(PPN)260826707 035 $a(EXLCZ)9921167788700041 100 $a20220208d2021 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSemiotic Agency $eScience beyond Mechanism /$fby Alexei Sharov, Morten Tønnessen 205 $a1st ed. 2021. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (385 pages) 225 1 $aBiosemiotics,$x1875-466X ;$v25 300 $aIncludes index. 311 08$aPrint version: Sharov, Alexei Semiotic Agency Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2022 9783030894832 327 $aChapter1. Introduction -- Chapter2. Historical Overview of Developments of the Notion of Agency -- Chapter3. Human Agency -- Chapter4. Agency in Non-Human Organisms -- Chapter5. Origins of Life -- Chapter6. Conceptualizing Agency -- Chapter7. Semiosis -- Chapter8. Semiogenesis -- Chapter9 Phenomenology -- Chapter10. Composite Agency and Semiotics of Modularity -- Chapter11. Human Agency and Ecology -- Chapter12. Agentology: Crosspollination of Science and Philosophy. 330 $aThis book invites readers to embark on a journey into the world of agency encompassing humans, other organisms, cells, intracellular molecular agents, colonies, populations, ecological systems, and artificial autonomous systems. We combine mechanistic and non-mechanistic approaches in the analysis of the function and evolution of organisms, their subagents, and multi-organism systems, and in this way offer a theoretical platform for integrating biosemiotics with both natural science and the humanities/social sciences. Agents are autonomous systems that incorporate knowledge on how to make sense of their environment and use it to achieve their goals. The functions of all agents are supported by mechanisms at the lowest level; however, the explanatory power of mechanistic analysis is not sufficient for complex agents. Non-mechanistic methods rely on the goal-directedness of agents whose dynamics follow self-stabilized dynamic attractors. The properties of attractors depend on stable or slowly changing factors, and such dependencies can be interpreted as sign relations if they are adaptive in nature. Agents can replace or redirect mechanisms on demand in order to preserve their functions; for performing higher-level semiotic functions, mechanisms are thus only means. We assume that mechanism and semiosis are not mutually exclusive, and that simple agents can interpret signs mechanistically. This assumption allows us to extend semiotic analysis to all agents, including ribosomes in cells, computers, and robots. This book challenges established traditions in natural science and the humanities/social sciences: semiotics no longer appears as restricted to humans and rational thinking, and biology is no longer limited to rely exclusively on mechanistic reasoning. 410 0$aBiosemiotics,$x1875-466X ;$v25 606 $aBiology$xPhilosophy 606 $aSemiotics 606 $aSocial sciences 606 $aHumanities 606 $aPhenomenology 606 $aLife sciences 606 $aPhilosophy of Biology 606 $aSemiotics 606 $aHumanities and Social Sciences 606 $aPhenomenology 606 $aLife Sciences 606 $aSemiòtica$2thub 606 $aBiologia$2thub 606 $aFilosofia de la ciència$2thub 608 $aLlibres electrònics$2thub 615 0$aBiology$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aSemiotics. 615 0$aSocial sciences. 615 0$aHumanities. 615 0$aPhenomenology. 615 0$aLife sciences. 615 14$aPhilosophy of Biology. 615 24$aSemiotics. 615 24$aHumanities and Social Sciences. 615 24$aPhenomenology. 615 24$aLife Sciences. 615 7$aSemiòtica 615 7$aBiologia 615 7$aFilosofia de la ciència 676 $a570.1 676 $a570.14 700 $aSharov$b Alexei A.$01260024 702 $aTønnessen$b Morten$f1976- 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910544854003321 996 $aSemiotic agency$92919639 997 $aUNINA