Electronic Papers

Papers of Alexei Sharov

• 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.
• Kalevi Kull Semiotic paradigm in theoretical biology.
• Christian Balkenius Natural Intellegence in Artificial Creatures (book on-line).
• Rocha, Luis Mateus Evolutionary Systems and Artificial Life (Lecture Notes). [(1) What is Life? (2) The logical Mechanisms of Life (3) Self-Organization and Emergent Complex Behavior (4) Self - Organization and Cellular Automata (5) Von Neumann and Darwinism (6) Evolutionary Computation (7) Artificial Life: Self-Organizing and Evolutionary Systems.]
• Lateiner Joshua S. Of Man, Mind and Machine.
• Dawkins, Richard Viruses of the Mind.
• Ogryzko, Vasily3 abstracts: (1) Evolution of Symbol Conventionality, (2) Digital and nondigital information in genetic langauge, and (3) Physics and biosemiotics
• Rocha, L.M. Selected Self-Organization From Eigenbehavior to Descriptions
• Rocha, L.M.Eigenbehavior and Symbols
• Henry, Charles and Rocha, L.M.Language Theory: Consensual Selection of Dynamics.
• Kineman, J. Theory of Autevolution. (epistemology, Gaia).
• First International Conference on Cognitive Science. August 1995, Hong Kong
  20 papers and a contact form for the 1997 Conference.

  The Proceedings of International Conference L.S. Vygotsky and the Contemporary Human Sciences

  37 papers on-line.

  Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science

  20 papers on-line.

  Semiotics '95 Conference: Semiotics as a Bridge between the Humanities and the Sciences

  Conference at the University of Toronto. Includes a conference programme (titles of some 75 papers and addresses) and ONE paper on-line.

  Colin Allen and Marc Bekoff Species of Mind: The Philosophy and Biology of Cognitive Ethology

  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.

Majow Web Sites on Biosemiotics

• Jakob von Uexküll Centre
• Jesper Hoffmeyer's web page

General Semiotics

• Sites of Significance for Semiotics
• Semiotics home page at University of Indiana
• Charles Sanders Peirce
• Semiotics for Beginners
• BUBL Information Service Web Server
• Sign Levels: Language and Its Evolutionary Antecedents
• Visual Communication
• Applied Semiotics
• Semiotics (Martin Ryder)
  Primers. Resources. People. Readings. Book announcements.

  Semiotic Terms (C. Joslyn)

  A hypertextual dictionary of terms from semantics and control as developed by Joslyn, supplemented from the Glossary of Semiotics by Vincent Colapietro.

  University of Alberta Cognitive Science Dictionary

  A hypertextual dictionary providing definitions, correlates and some references.

  Lexicon of Linguistics (Hans Leidekker, Utrecht)

  A very thorough hypertextual dictionary of linguistics.

  Göran Sonesson

  UCI Linguistics

  Lexicon of Linguistics

Artificial Life

• Artificial Life Bibliography
• A Philosophy of Artificial Life Bibliography
• Artificial Life Online (Santa Fe)
• Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Home Page (MIT)
• Artificial Life
• Agents and Rationality
• A-Life Lectures
• Conway's Game of Life

Theoretical Biology

• Principia Cybernetica Web
• Autopoiesis (term) - Francisco Varela
• Theoretical Biology / Bioinformatics Group
• Bioinformatics (Nick Savill)
• General Principles of Organization of Life
• Lorenz Institute - Theoretical biology
• Evolution and Philosophy
• Center for the Study of Evolution and the Origin of Life
• Prion Diseases
• GAIA
• The Meaning of "Life"
• An Information Theory Definition of Life
• Adaptation and Evolvability
• Theoretical biologists (homepages of people who work in TB)

Mathematical Biology

• The NCI Laboratory of Mathematical Biology
• Lycos search: Mathematical Biology
• Project Dynamo (Pragmatic logic)

Virtual and Augmented Reality

• Virtual Reality Research
• Augmented Reality

Economical Games

• Economics, games, learning (Bryan Routledge)
• Economical games in social networks (local interactions approach)
• Economy and learning (Tilman Slembeck) Enterprises as Autopoietic Systems (Randall Whitaker)

General System Theory

• General System Theory
• Metasystem Transition Theory
• The History of Evolution in Terms of Metasystem Transitions
• Iulius Shreider on systems theory
• Biological concept of time (review of Meyen's theory)
• Petri Nets
• Two Aspects of Time
• Complexity, Complex Systems and Chaos Theory
• VCU Complexity Research Group

Philosophy

• Philosophy-Related WWW Sites
• McGill Philosophy Web Server
• R.A. Johnson's Pilosophy Page
• Great Thinkers
• DialogNet (Philosophical discussions on the Internet)
• BUBL Information Service Web Server
• Philosophy on the Web
• Cognition maps, templates, metaphors, and "I Ching Plus" (Chris Lofting)
• Epistemological Connections
• A Tangled Web of Guesses: A Critical Assessment of the Philosophy of Karl Popper
• The Problems of Philosophy, Bertrand Russell
• Holism, Analytic/Synthetic etc.
• Contemporary Philosophy of Mind: An Annotated Bibliography
• Naturalizing the Mental (Dretske, Stanford Philosophy)

Ethics

• Center for Bioethics
• Ethics at Yahoo

Alexei Sharov