Electronic Papers

Papers of Alexei Sharov

• Semiotic agency: Life is meaning-making. In: Towards a biosemiotic theoretrical biology,
• Following Developments of Biosemiotics A.A. Sharov 2024.
• Pathways to the Origin and Evolution of Meanings in the Universe. Sharov, A.A. and Mikhailovsky, G.E. (eds) 2023.
• Consciousness and Learning from the Biosemiotic Perspective. Sharov, A.A. 2022.
• Evolution and semiosis. Sharov, A.A. and Kull, K. 2022.
• Semiotic agency. Science beyond mechanism. Sharov, A.A. and Tønnessen 2021
• Towards a Biosemiotic Theory of Evolution. Sharov, A.A. 2021
• Mind, Agency, and Biosemiotics. Sharov, A.A. 2018.
• Composite agency: semiotics of modularity and guiding interactions. Sharov, A.A. 2017.
• Evolutionary biosemiotics and multilevel construction networks. Sharov, A.A. 2016.
• Evolution of natural agents: Preservation, advance, and emergence of functional information. Sharov, A.A. 2016.
• Comprehending the semiosis of evolution. Sharov, A.A., Maran, T., and Toennessen, M. 2016.
• Coenzyme world model of the origin of life. Sharov, A.A. 2016.
• Organisms reshape sign relations. Sharov, A., Maran, T., and Toennessen, M. 2015.
• Towards synthesis of biology and semiotics. Sharov, A., Maran, T., and Toennessen, M. 2015.
• Protosemiosis: agency with reduced representation capacity. Sharov, A. A., Vehkavaara, T. 2015.
• Evolutionary constraints or opportunities?. Sharov, A.A. 2014.
• Inferring directions of evolution from patterns of variation: The legacy of Sergei Meyen. Sharov, A.A. and Igamberdiev, A.U. 2014.
• Minimal mind. Sharov, A.A. 2013.
• Life before Earth. Sharov, A.A., Gordon, R. 2013.
• The origin of mind. Sharov, A.A. 2012.
• Biosemiotics and relativistic epistemology (in Russian) 2011
• Functional information: Towards synthesis of biosemiotics and cybernetics 2010
• Time in living systems 2010
• Role of utility and inference in the evolution of functional information 2009
• Coenzyme autocatalytic network on the surface of oil microspheres as a model for the origin of life 2009
• Genome increase as a clock for the origin and evolution of life 2006
• Semiosis in Self-Producing Systems 1999
• The origin and evolution of signs 1999
• Pragmatism and Umwelt-theory 1999
• Metasystem transitions in biology 1998
• Iulius Shreider on systems theory 1998
• Signs and values 1997
• Towards the semiotic paradigm in biology 1997
• Theory of Self-Reproducing Systems. 1992
• Biosemiotics: A functional-evolutionary approach to the analysis of the sense of information. 1991
• Concept of time in biology 1988

Papers of other authors

• Emmeche, Claus and Jesper Hoffmeyer From Language to Nature - the semiotic metaphor in biology.
• Jesper Hoffmeyer and Claus Emmeche Code-duality and the semiotics of nature.
• Jesper Hoffmeyer Biosemiotics: Towards a New Synthesis in Biology.
• Howard Pattee Evolving self-reference: matter, symbols, and semantic closure.
• Ogryzko, Vasily3 abstracts: (1) Evolution of Symbol Conventionality, (2) Digital and nondigital information in genetic langauge, and (3) Physics and biosemiotics
• Kull, K. On the history of joining bio with semio: F. S. Rothschild and the biosemiotic rules Kull, K. Biosemiotics in the twentieth century: a view from biology.
• Menant, Christophe From Biosemiotics to Semiotics.
• Menant, Christophe The systemic theory of meaning.

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