Organization, experience, and adaptation. Three biosemiotic connections between von Uexküll’s thought and Maturana and Varela’s enactive biology
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biosemiotics, functional circle, autopoiesis, Umwelt, structural couplingAbstract
From a biosemiotic point of view —that is, focusing on how meaning and life co-emerge and are closely related— this article intends to establish three connections between the theories of the Estonian biologist Jakob von Uexküll and the theories of the Chilean biologists Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela. Such connections will be made by examining three general questions about life and sense-making in organisms: how meaning is tied to organization, experience, and adaptation. Thus, the text will investigate the interweaving and complementary ideas between both von Uexküll’s and Maturana and Varela’s most salient theories: specially, between the concept of functional circle and autopoiesis; between Umwelt and enactive world, and between adaptive counterpoint and structural coupling.
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