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Meaning is a concept usually associated with the work of philosophers and linguists. In this book, the author presents the idea that meaning making is a constituting principle of all living systems. Meaning-making involves the process by which a system responds to an indeterminate signal and makes sense out of its environment.
This book focuses on meaning-making in living systems from an interdisciplinary perspective and points at the importance of meaning making for understanding the behavior of living systems from the immune system, through dogs play behavior to human conversation. Drawing on a novel theory of meaning-making in living systems, the author suggests three basic organizing concepts for studying meaning-making. Those concepts may shed new light on biological processes as complex as cognitive processes and present a radical alternative to the information-processing, mechanical and reductionist approaches that govern biological research.
