Biosemiotics and the foundation of cybersemiotics: Reconceptualizing the insights of ethology, second-order cybernetics, and Peirce′s semiotics in biosemiotics to create a non-Cartesian information science

Semiotica

Volumn 127, Issue 1-4, 1999, Pages 169-198

  Brier, Søren ^a  

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EID: 0012808930     PISSN: 00371998     EISSN: 16133692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.127.1-4.169     Document Type: Article

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