Semiotics of Biosignatures
Dunér, David LU
(2018)
In Southern Semiotic Review
p.47-63
- Abstract
- This article examines the interpretation of biosignatures, the signs of life that could be
detected in outer space. In astrobiology biosignatures could be of various kinds, fossils, molecules, traces, artefacts, structures, electromagnetic waves, etc. The purpose of this article is to bring some semiotic order in this seemingly chaotic variation of signs. It turns out that the semiotic function of these signs varies a lot, and each has their own epistemological problems and semiotic peculiarities. The article put forward a semiotics of biosignatures, i.e., how we, as interpreters, establish connections between things, between the expression (the biosignature) and the content (the living organism) in various forms of semiosis, as icons,... (More) - This article examines the interpretation of biosignatures, the signs of life that could be
detected in outer space. In astrobiology biosignatures could be of various kinds, fossils, molecules, traces, artefacts, structures, electromagnetic waves, etc. The purpose of this article is to bring some semiotic order in this seemingly chaotic variation of signs. It turns out that the semiotic function of these signs varies a lot, and each has their own epistemological problems and semiotic peculiarities. The article put forward a semiotics of biosignatures, i.e., how we, as interpreters, establish connections between things, between the expression (the biosignature) and the content (the living organism) in various forms of semiosis, as icons, indices, and symbols of life. In all, it is about how we get access to the world, and how we interpret and understand it, for achieving a wellgrounded knowledge about the living Universe. (Less)
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- author
- Dunér, David
LU
- organization
- alternative title
- Livstecknens semiotik
- publishing date
- 2018
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Semiotik, Biosignaturer, astrobiologi, kognitiv semiotik
- in
- Southern Semiotic Review
- issue
- 9
- pages
- 17 pages
- publisher
- Playscript
- ISSN
- 2202-2783
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
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- b3f3050e-a661-467a-9cad-3f75a57893b6
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- http://www.southernsemioticreview.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/SSR-20181-Issue-9_04-paper.pdf
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