Drawing on research in posthumanism, science and technology studies and biosemiotics, this essay analyses the challenges epigenetic processes pose for our understanding of embodied subjectivity. It uses the work of Charles Sanders Peirce to argue that epigenetic processes are indexical in their patterned logic, that they are meaning-making processes and that, consequently, they can be conceived as a form of attention. To conceive of bodies as paying attention through epigenetic processes is to rupture the distinction between matter and meaning that governs many philosophical categories. This in turn invites us to recalibrate our conception of the relationship between self, body and world.

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注意体：表观遗传过程的索引性如何丰富我们对具身主观性的理解

本文借鉴后人类主义、科学技术研究和生物符号学的研究，分析了表观遗传过程对我们理解具身主观性所带来的挑战。它使用查尔斯·桑德斯·皮尔斯 (Charles Sanders Peirce) 的工作来论证表观遗传过程在其模式化逻辑中是索引性的，它们是意义制造过程，因此，它们可以被视为一种注意力形式。将身体想象为通过表观遗传过程进行关注，就是打破支配许多哲学范畴的物质和意义之间的区别。这反过来又邀请我们重新调整我们对自我、身体和世界之间关系的概念。