The concept of information and its relation to biosemiotics is a major area of contention among biosemioticians. Biosemioticians influenced by von Uexküll, Sebeok, Bateson and Peirce are critical of the way the concept as developed in information science has been applied to biology, while others believe that for biosemiotics to gain acceptance it will have to embrace information science and distance biosemiotics from Peirce’s philosophical work. Here I will defend the influence of Peirce on biosemiotics, arguing that information science and biosemiotics as these were originally formulated are radically opposed research traditions. Failure to appreciate this will undermine the challenge of biosemiotics and other anti-reductionist traditions to mainstream science with its reductionist ambition to explain everything through physics. However, for this challenge to be successful, it will be necessary to respond to criticisms of Peircian ideas, jettisoning ideas that are no longer defensible and integrating ideas allied to his anti-reductionist agenda. Here I will argue that the natural philosophy of Gilbert Simondon, offering a searching critique of the application of the new concept of information and cybernetics to the life and human sciences, provides the means to defend and advance Peirce’s core ideas and thereby defend post-reductionist biosemiotics.

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符号学与信息：应对信息科学对后还原生物符号学的挑战

信息的概念及其与生物符号学的关系是生物符号学家之间争论的主要领域。受冯·埃克斯库尔（VenUexküll），塞贝克（Sebeok），贝特森（Bateson）和皮尔士（Peirce）影响的生物符号学家对信息科学中的概念被应用到生物学的方式持批评态度，而其他人则认为，要使生物符号学获得认可，它必须包含信息科学和与皮尔士大学相距遥远的生物符号学。哲学工作。在这里，我将捍卫皮尔士对生物符号学的影响，认为最初制定的信息科学和生物符号学是完全相反的研究传统。不理解这一点将破坏生物符号学和其他反还原主义传统对主流科学的挑战，因为它的还原主义野心可以通过物理学来解释一切。然而，为了使这一挑战取得成功，有必要回应对皮尔斯思想的批评，抛弃不再是可辩驳的思想，并将与他的反还原主义议程相关联的思想加以整合。在这里，我将辩称，吉尔伯特·西蒙登（Gilbert Simondon）的自然哲学对信息和控制论的新概念在生命科学和人文科学中的应用提出了搜索批评，为捍卫和推进皮尔斯的核心思想从而捍卫后还原主义者提供了手段。生物符号学。