Noble rightly emphasizes that some modern evolutionary biologists´ neglect of agency is consequential with regard to our understanding of the natural world and real-world ecological developments. I elaborate on biosemiotic ideas on semiotic agency and explain how organisms can change the environment by way of semiotic causation. I also comment on the human language’s role in human Umwelten, and how our linguistically mediated reality can be self-deceptive – as if we lived in a bubble of our own making. Finally, I indicate how we can make the Umwelt bubble of the Modern Synthesis burst.

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打破现代综合主义的泡沫

来宝（Noble）正确地强调，对于我们对自然世界和现实世界生态发展的理解，一些现代进化生物学家对代理的忽视是必然的。我详细阐述了有关符号学代理的生物符号学思想，并解释了生物如何通过符号学因果关系改变环境。我还评论了人类语言在人类世界中的作用，以及我们的语言介导现实如何自我欺骗–就像我们生活在自己的泡沫中一样。最后，我说明了如何使“现代综合”的Umwelt泡沫破裂。