Semiosphere

The semiosphere is an idea in biosemiotic theory proposing that, contrary to ideas of nature determining sense and experience, the phenomenal world is a creative and logical structure of processes of semiosis where signs operate together to produce sense and experience. Abstraction (sociology) Human communication Biosemiotic theorists regard the idea of the semiosphere as beginning with continental philosophers' recognition of an epistemological gap between the ontological and the ontic, where it is initially difficult to conceptualize the way that subjectivity is created in between them. The study of the semiosphere has often overlapped into research made by symbolic interactionists and field theorists. The subject's narrative boundary-understanding of its environment—the lifeworld as proposed by Edmund Husserl, or umwelt as proposed by Jakob Johann von Uexküll—is derived through abstract processes of making a phenomenal world of symptoms, signals, icons, indexes, symbols and names—as proposed by Charles Sanders Peirce—from the semiosphere's code for interacting with and creating meaning from other umwelt. An analogical concept is Deleuze and Guattari's societal extraction of surplus value of code, where subjects sporadically extract signs—which are externalized as acts and traits—from the code that makes up their environment. Chronotope and Logosphere Hero's journeyAllegory and Temporality One proposed solution to the socio-spatial problem of mind–body dualism is of a narrative structure within four-dimensional space, which the idea of the semiosphere makes cohesive. The concept of the process of semiosis has foundations in a variety of continental philosophers; in particular, the common denominators between Freudian unconscious and Jungian unconscious are mythic structures. Roland Barthes' definition of myth is the semiological self-mythology derived from everyday life (news, entertainment, advertisements), with its own codes and "whistles". The present-I-sign interacts with others through the future-You-interpretant to retroactively form the past-Me-object.