Abstract
Nature is not only a generator of form, but also of meaningful worlds. We know this, as we are examples for this process, and as meaning-generation is the way we experience our existence in connection with others. But for a biological approach, meaning is still difficult to integrate into a description of the biosphere, let alone the inevitable company of its experience: feeling, subjectivity, and inwardness.
“It is said that contradiction is unthinkable; but the fact is that in the pain of a living being it is even an actual existence.”
Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel (1969:770)
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Weber, A. (2016). Subjectivity. In: Biopoetics. Biosemiotics, vol 14. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-0832-4_2
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