Editors' comment

Claus Emmeche, Jesper Hoffmeyer, Kalevi Kull

11-13

The chicken and the orphean egg

on the function of meaning and the meaning of function

Claus Emmeche

15-31

Umwelt and semiosphere

Mihhail Lotman

33-39

Semiosphere

a chemistry of being

Kaie Kotov

41-54

Beyond self and other

on the neurosemiotic emergence of intersubjectivity

Donald Favareau

57-99

On the epigenesis of meaning in robots and organisms

could a humanoid robot develop a human(oid) umwelt?

Tom Ziemke

101-110

Intrasemiotics and cybersemiotics

Søren Brier

113-127

Back to the science of life

Anton Markos, Fatima Cvrčková

129-146

Three types of semiotic indeterminacy in Monod's philosophy of modern biology

Stefan Artmann

149-160

Where bonds become binds

the necessity for Bateson's interactive perspective in biosemiotics

Peter Harries-Jones

163-180

Feeling the signs

the origins of meaning in the biological philosophy of Susanne K. Langer and Hans Jonas

Andreas Weber

183-199

Tundes märke

tähenduse päritolu susanne k. Langeri ja Hans Jonase bioloogilises filosoofias. kokkuvõte

Andreas Weber

199-200

Human/animal communications, language, and evolution

Dominique Lestel

201-211

On the zoosemiotics of health and disease

Aleksei Turovski

213-218

Does "quorum sensing" imply a new type of biological information?

Luis E. Bruni

221-242

Pragmatics and biosemiotics

Alexei A. Sharov

245-257

Evolution of the "window"

Vefa Karatary

259-269

"Akna" evolutsioon. kokkuvõte

Vefa Karatary

269-270

Biological evolution

a semiotically constrained growth of complexity

Igamberdiev

271-281

Bioloogiline evolutsioon — semiootiliselt piiratud keerukuse kasv. kokkuvõte

Igamberdiev

281-282

Biosemiotic knowledge

a prerequisite for valid explorations of extraterrestrial intelligent life

Elling Ulvestad

283-291

Why and how to naturalize semiotic concepts for biosemiotics

Tommi Vehkavaara

293-312

Understanding life

trans-semiotic analogies

Andrès Luure

315-325

A sign is not alive — a text is

Kalevi Kull

327-335