Preliminary list of contributors

See the abstracts and program
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Myrdene Anderson - moderating general discussion

Stefan Artman - Three types of semiotic indeterminacy and their relevance to biosemiotics

Marcello Barbieri - A brief history of semantic biology

Thierry Bardini - Does junk-DNA break the genetic code metaphor?

Sabine Brauckmann - Biosemiotics: Is it a tool of theoretical biology or a theory of biology?

Luis Emilio Bruni - Does "quorum sensing" imply a new type of biological information?

Soren Brier - Intrasemiotics

Han-liang Chang - Naming animals in Chinese writing

Sergey Chebanov - On the concept of sense: Towards bilateralist biosemiotics

Peder Voetmann Christiansen - Habit formation as symmetry breaking in the early universe

Claus Emmeche - Biosemiosis, downward causation, and function in the organism

Donald Favareau - Beyond self and other: The neurosemiotic emergence of intersubjectivity

Anton Fürlinger - Is movement the 'highest' code?

Peter Harries-Jones - Where bonds become binds: the necessity for Bateson's inter-subjective perspective in biosemiotics

Jesper Hoffmeyer - Life, energy and semiosis

Wolfgang Hofkirchner - Biosemiosis in the context of self-organization

Abir U. Igamberdiev - Semiotic structure of living systems: imprints, codes and language games

Tuomo Jämsä - Like a sheet of paper: The interplay between sign and meaning in nature

Vefa Karatay and Yagmur Denizhan - Evolution of the "window"

Kalevi Kull - Biosemiotics means biology

Dominique Lestel - Human/animal commmunications, language and evolution

Andres Luure - Understanding life: Trans-semiotic analogies

Anton Markos - An attempt of a hermeneutics of the living

Tiberiu Mustata - The world as semiosis - a semiotic model of reality and evolution

Jorge de Barros Pires - The universality of sign in Charles S. Peirce Semiotics

Jyoo-Hi Rhee - Qualia: From the mind-body dichotomy to the biosemiocybernetic paradigm

Andreas Roepstorff - Thinking with animals

Alexei A. Sharov - Pragmatics and biosemiotics

Martin Skov - Some problems in neurosemiotics

Frederik Stjernfelt - Symbols and the evolutionary transition from animal to man

Edwina Taborsky - Architecture of an evolutionary semiosis

Elling Ulvestad - Evolution, semiotics and extraterrestrial life

Tommi Vehkavaara - How and why to naturalize semiotic concepts for biosemiotics?

Andreas Weber - Mimesis and metaphor. A biosemiotic commentary on the origin of symbolic forms in the cultural philosophy of Ernst Cassirer

Tom Ziemke - Robosemiotics