Virus semiosis: interview with Kalevi Kull
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TECCOGS, Digital Journal of Cognitive Technologies, is pleased to welcome Professor Kalevi Kull, an eminent biosemioticist from the Department of Semiotics at the University of Tartu, Estonia, as a guest to comment on the topic “Virus Semiosis”. This theme seeks to answer whether viruses, such as the coronarivus Covid-19, spread through semiotic processes, that is, through semiosis.
The key to this question lies in the concept of semiosis introduced by Charles S. Peirce in his MS 318 of 1907, but implicit in all his early writings on the essence of signs and their processes. Peirce wrote, “By 'semiosis' I mean […] an action, or influence, which is, or involves, a cooperation between three subjects, being a sign, its object, and its interpretant” (Peirce 1907, p. 411). In other words, a semiosis process begins with a sign, which represents an object, and creates an interpretant, which exerts a semiotic influence with its specific semiotic effect. In this process, signs propagate through a semiotic agency with which they seek a semiotic purpose. The purpose of a symbol, at least, is to propagate, to multiply in the form of other symbols. A symbol that does not propagate dies due to obsolescence, lack of use and intelligibility. In this sense, the symbols seek final causes. They want to be understood. […].
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