[PEIRCE-L] RE: [biosemiotics:8515] Re: Natural

2015-04-28 Thread gnox
Howard, interesting definition! [A phenomenon is information resulting from an individual subject’s detection of a physical interaction.] Applying this to your proposition, then, I have to ask: Who or what was the individual subject who detected the first self-replication, so that the

Re: [PEIRCE-L] RE: [biosemiotics:8515] Re: Natural

2015-04-28 Thread Howard Pattee
At 10:59 AM 4/28/2015,Gary F.wrote: Howard, interesting definition! [A phenomenon is information resulting from an individual subject's detection of a physical interaction.] HP: This definition is just an extension of the classic definition to subhuman organisms.As a broad academic discipline