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The Logos of the Bios 2
Bio-Communication

Günther Witzany,

Helsinki. Umweb, 2007, ca 240 pp.

Content
1. Introduction
2. Plant Communication from Biosemiotic Perspective
3. Fungal Communication
4. Coral Communication
5. Communicative Competences of Bacteria
6. Natural Genome Editing Competences of Viruses
7. Serial Endosymbiotic Theory: The Biosemiotic Update
8. From Umwelt to Mitwelt: Natural Laws versus Rule-Governed Sign-Mediated Interactions

“The Logos of the Bios“ Volumes 1 and 2 both focus on the necessary and ongoing change from a pure mechanistic biology to a biology as an understanding social science.

Volume 1 established the foundations of a three-leveled biosemiotics, i.e. one in which any investigation or analyses of sign-mediated interactions must recognize the complementarity of syntactic (combinatorial), pragmatic (context-sensitive) and semantic (contentspecific) rules.
Volume 2 now delivers the practical application. The articles cover all organismic kingdoms except that of Archaea, demonstrating Bio-Communication in all domains of life.
Bio-Communication is the precondition for any coordination within and between organisms. Bio-Communication occurs on three levels (A) intraorganismic, i.e. intra- and intercellular,
(B) interorganismic, between the same or related species and (C) metaorganismic, between organisms which are not related.
The Bio-Communicative approach transforms empirical data of traditional biological research into a practical tool for a consistent categorization of all living processes.

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Günther Witzany, founded the 1st “Philosophische Praxis” (philosophical practice) in Austria in 1985. His research interests are applied philosophy, linguistic pragmatics, biosemiotics, molecular biology, genetics, epigenetics, microbiology, rule-governed signmediated interactions within and between bacteria, fungi, animals and plants.