The Primal Integrated Realm and the Derived Interactive Realm in Relation to Biosemiosis, and Their Link with the Ideas of J.W. Von Goethe

Overview

Journal Commun Integr Biol

Specialty Biology

Date 2012 Nov 28

PMID 23181156

Citations 4

Authors

Peter W Barlow

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Abstract

Certain phenomena in Nature which might logically be regarded as indicating biosemiotic communication, with signal, receptor and interpretant, may, in fact, indicate no such thing. Instead, the respective phenomenological observations may point to an underlying system that JW von Goethe termed an "Urphänomen". From such Primal Phenomena emerge derived phenomena, or "Types", which are made substantial by processes that uniquely define Life and Living. Biosemiosis arises and takes place within the derived Types. Examples of Primal Phenomena and their derivatives are taken from recent observations on the putative influence of the lunisolar gravitational force upon animal and plant behavior, and from some aspects of plant development that show connection with Goethe's idea of the 'Urpflanze'.

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