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2016-04-17 Thread Dr. Plamen L. Simeonov
Dear All, I think that in the context of what Maxine, Lou, Soeren and others exchanged a little while ago it makes sense to refer to Kalevi Kull’s paper in the Biosemiotics section V of this collection below which initiated our discussion: 2015 JPBMB Special Issue on Integral Biomathics: Life Sci

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2016-04-17 Thread Dr. Plamen L. Simeonov
Dear Maxine, Lou, Pedro, Loet, John, Soeren and Colleagues, first of all I wish to thank Maxine for providing a bit different perspective upon the overall subject of the discussion theme, namely phenomenology or better said “phenomenological philosophy” (since “phenomenology” has acquired differen

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2016-04-17 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
Dear Lou and colleagues, The reasoning is very clear. Thank you. (…) At this point the being has attained linguistic self-reference. The being can say “I am the meta-name of my own naming process.” This nexus or fixed point of self-reference can occur naturally in a being that has suff