Signs of Meaning in the Universe

JESPER HOFFMEYER is Professor in the Biosemiotics Group at the Institute of Molecular Biology at the University of Copenhagen. He has published six books in Danish on social and philosophical aspects of biology and is a regular contributor to leading Danish newspapers. He has been the editor of two major Danish magazines on science, technxnd society, and is presently a member of the board for The Centre for Ethics and Law, University of Copenhagen.

• Foreword1. SignifyingOn lumps in nothingness, on "not"2. ForgettingOn history and codes: the dialectic of oblivion3. RepeatingOn Nature's tendency to acquire habits4. InventingOn life and self-reference, on subjectivity5. Opening UpOn the sensory universe of creatures: the liberation of the semiosphere6. DefiningThe mobile brain: the language of cells7. ConnectingOn the triadic ascendance of dualism8. SharingOn language: existential bioanthropology9. UnitingConsciousness: the bodily governor within the brain10. HealingOn ethics: reuniting two stories in one body-mindNotesBibliographyIndex

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