Semiosis as an Emergent Process

In this paper, we intend to discuss if and in what sense semiosis (meaningprocess, cf. C.S. Peirce) can be regarded as an "emergent" process in semiotic systems. It isnot our problem here to answer when or how semiosis emerged in nature. As a prerequisitefor the very formulation of these problems, we are rather interested in discussing theconditions which should be fulfilled for semiosis to be characterized as an emergentprocess. The first step in this work is to summarize a systematic...