The meaning of biological signals.

We introduce the virtual special issue on content in signalling systems. The issue explores the uses and limits of ideas from evolutionary game theory and information theory for explaining the content of biological signals. We explain the basic idea of the Lewis-Skyrms sender-receiver framework, and we highlight three key themes of the issue: (i) the challenge of accounting for deception, misinformation and false content, (ii) the relevance of partial or total common interest to the evolution of meaningful signals, and (iii) how the sender-receiver framework relates to teleosemantics.

• Publication year

  2020

• Venue

  Studies in history and philosophy of biological and biomedical sciences

• Publication date

  2020-09-12

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Philosophy, Computer Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/j.shpsc.2020.101348PMID 32933851
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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• No concepts are published for this paper.

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