On the Nature of the Subjectivity of Living Things |
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Authors: | Yoshimi Kawade |
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Institution: | (1) 43-6 Okazaki Minamigosho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto Japan, 606-8334 |
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Abstract: | A biosemiotic view of living things is presented that supersedes the mechanistic view of life prevalent in biology today.
Living things are active agents with autonomous subjectivity, whose structure is triadic, consisting of the individual organism,
its Umwelt and the society. Sociality inheres in every living thing since the very origin of life on the earth. The temporality
of living things is guided by the purpose to live, which works as the semantic boundary condition for the processes of embodiment
of the subjectivity. Freedom at the molecular and cellular levels allows autonomy and spontaneity to emerge even in single
cell organisms, and the presence of the dimension of mind in every living thing is deduced. Living things transcend their
individualness, as they live in historically formed higher order structure consisting of the lineage-species and the society.
They also transcend materiality, having the dimension of mind. |
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Keywords: | Subjectivity Sociality Triadic structure of subjectivity Purposiveness Microdynamic structural polymorphism Freedom at the molecular and cellular levels |
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