Semiosphere

The semiosphere is a concept in cultural semiotics and biosemiotic theory, according to which - contrary to ideas of nature determining sense and experience^[1]^[2]^[3] - the phenomenal world is a creative and logical structure of processes of semiosis where signs operate together to produce sense and experience.^[4]^[5]

^ Dickinson, Adam (2011). "Pataphysics and Biosemiotics in Lisa Robertson's Office for Soft Architecture". Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. 18 (3). Oxford University Press: 615–636. doi:10.1093/isle/isr084. JSTOR 44087009. Retrieved 11 May 2021. Biosemiotics proposes the primacy of the 'semiosphere' over the biosphere; it is concerned with living systems as nested sets of surfaces. The surface is where multiple signaling processes act on the cell membrane according to contextual recognition.
^ Sebeok, Thomas A. (2001). Signs: An Introduction to Semiotics (PDF) (2 ed.). Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press Incorporated. p. 33. ISBN 0-8020-8472-9. Our intuition of reality is a consequence of a mutual interaction between the two: Jakob von Uexküll's private world of elementary sensations (Merkzeichen, 'perceptual signs') coupled to their meaningful transforms into action impulses (Wirkzeichen, 'operation signs'); and the phenomenal world (Umwelt), that is, the subjective world each animal models out of its 'true' environment (Natur, 'reality'), which reveals itself solely through signs.^{[dead link]}
^ Alter, Joseph S. (2015). "Gattungswesen - The Ecology of Species-Being: Alienation, Biosemiotics, and Social Theory". Anthropos. 110 (2). Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH: 515–531. doi:10.5771/0257-9774-2015-2-515. JSTOR 43861976. Retrieved 11 May 2021. Any environment accommodates numerous organisms, and the plurality of Umwelt in communication constitutes a semiosphere. Semiospheres are emergent systems structured by the triadic logic of signs rather than ecological niches structured by adaptive mechanisms.
^ Steiner, Lina (2003). "Toward an Ideal Universal Community: Lotman's Revisiting of the Enlightenment and Romanticism". Comparative Literature Studies. 40 (1). Penn State University Press: 37–53. doi:10.1353/cls.2003.0010. JSTOR 40247371. S2CID 161074537. Retrieved 11 May 2021. It is important that we see the semiosphere not merely as a network of human and artificial intelligence, a kind of world-wide technological exchange but, in keeping with Lotman's view, as a membrane of human conscious acts, which makes communication possible, but cannot be reduced to mere communication and exchange of 'know how.'
^ Mandelker, Amy (1994). "Semiotizing the Sphere: Organicist Theory in Lotman, Bakhtin, and Vernadsky". PMLA. 109 (3). Cambridge University Press: 385–396. doi:10.2307/463075. JSTOR 463075. S2CID 163684213. Retrieved 11 May 2021. Lotman's semiosphere derives from Mikhail Bakhtin's logosphere, itself adapted from ... Vladimir Vernadsky's notion of the biosphere. ... Lotman acknowledges his debt to Bakhtin's suggestive notion of the 'logosphere,' that 'dialogic sphere where the word exists' ... (Bakhtin, 'From Notes' 150[).] ... Vernadsky's ecological theory embeds humanity in the biosphere by positing conscious thought on the planet as a distinct geological force—the 'noosphere' (named from the Greek vóoç 'mind').

[1] Dickinson, Adam (2011). "Pataphysics and Biosemiotics in Lisa Robertson's Office for Soft Architecture". Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. 18 (3). Oxford University Press: 615–636. doi:10.1093/isle/isr084. JSTOR 44087009. Retrieved 11 May 2021. Biosemiotics proposes the primacy of the 'semiosphere' over the biosphere; it is concerned with living systems as nested sets of surfaces. The surface is where multiple signaling processes act on the cell membrane according to contextual recognition.

[2] Sebeok, Thomas A. (2001). Signs: An Introduction to Semiotics (PDF) (2 ed.). Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press Incorporated. p. 33. ISBN 0-8020-8472-9. Our intuition of reality is a consequence of a mutual interaction between the two: Jakob von Uexküll's private world of elementary sensations (Merkzeichen, 'perceptual signs') coupled to their meaningful transforms into action impulses (Wirkzeichen, 'operation signs'); and the phenomenal world (Umwelt), that is, the subjective world each animal models out of its 'true' environment (Natur, 'reality'), which reveals itself solely through signs.^{[dead link]}

[3] Alter, Joseph S. (2015). "Gattungswesen - The Ecology of Species-Being: Alienation, Biosemiotics, and Social Theory". Anthropos. 110 (2). Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH: 515–531. doi:10.5771/0257-9774-2015-2-515. JSTOR 43861976. Retrieved 11 May 2021. Any environment accommodates numerous organisms, and the plurality of Umwelt in communication constitutes a semiosphere. Semiospheres are emergent systems structured by the triadic logic of signs rather than ecological niches structured by adaptive mechanisms.

[4] Steiner, Lina (2003). "Toward an Ideal Universal Community: Lotman's Revisiting of the Enlightenment and Romanticism". Comparative Literature Studies. 40 (1). Penn State University Press: 37–53. doi:10.1353/cls.2003.0010. JSTOR 40247371. S2CID 161074537. Retrieved 11 May 2021. It is important that we see the semiosphere not merely as a network of human and artificial intelligence, a kind of world-wide technological exchange but, in keeping with Lotman's view, as a membrane of human conscious acts, which makes communication possible, but cannot be reduced to mere communication and exchange of 'know how.'

[Mandelker-5] Mandelker, Amy (1994). "Semiotizing the Sphere: Organicist Theory in Lotman, Bakhtin, and Vernadsky". PMLA. 109 (3). Cambridge University Press: 385–396. doi:10.2307/463075. JSTOR 463075. S2CID 163684213. Retrieved 11 May 2021. Lotman's semiosphere derives from Mikhail Bakhtin's logosphere, itself adapted from ... Vladimir Vernadsky's notion of the biosphere. ... Lotman acknowledges his debt to Bakhtin's suggestive notion of the 'logosphere,' that 'dialogic sphere where the word exists' ... (Bakhtin, 'From Notes' 150[).] ... Vernadsky's ecological theory embeds humanity in the biosphere by positing conscious thought on the planet as a distinct geological force—the 'noosphere' (named from the Greek vóoç 'mind').

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