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This anthology is a manifold combining semiotics and psychology. Chapters in the book are authored by young scholars making sense of semiosis in irreversible time from a multitude of perspectives. The central focus on the dynamics of meaning-making comes together in a variety of topics that align in the core idea of dynamic nature of human making and use of signs. First, this book gives a comprehensive overview of relational dynamics of the sign. The overview is followed by a collection of chapters focusing on various topics relevant for humanities and social sciences, such as experience of time, (cultural) memory, musical signification, human-computer interactions, death and eternity, freedom and responsibility, authenticity, methods for practice and research in psychology, etc. This anthology contributes to the integration of the fields of semiotics and psychology, building on the classic traditions of the Tartu-Moscow School of Semiotics (established by Juri Lotman) and contemporary cultural psychology that has unified social sciences in the recent three decades. Examples of how new semiotic models are applied to various domains of human lives will be given, anticipating the future and addressing its past. As such, this book is a relevant read for everyone interested in the complex nature of meaning-making, and inclusion of dynamics in all expressions of life, including academic research

Abstract
That what underlies the possibility of semiosis in the first place at any level is the irreducibility of relations to subjectivity (including intersubjectivity), together with the singularity of relations as the only form of being capable of being positively verified to exist whether the existence is an awarenessdependent or awareness-independent occurrence, remains to be generally understood. Yet just this understanding, along with appreciation of the irreducible triad (significate, representamen, interpretant) unified by any given relation of a semiosic character, is required to explain the vis a prospecto uniqueness of signs as able to transmit through present circumstances an influence of the future rearranging the relevance of past occurrences to what will be even though it may not be yet.

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"Semiosis" comes to us from Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914) as a coinage derived from Locke's 1690 coinage of "semiotics". In early to late-middle twentieth century, however, with the notable exception of Juri Lotman (1922–1993), who knew Locke's work, this "new science" for studying signs was known rather as "semiology", the name proposed by Ferdinand de Saussure (1857–1913), who was ignorant of Locke's earlier proposal. Drawing upon Locke's original terminology, Thomas A. Sebeok distinguished between anthroposemiotics as the exclusive realm of "semiology" and zoösemiotics as studying the action of signs throughout the animal kingdom. Sebeok identified Saussure's "semiology", accordingly, as a pars pro toto fallacy: the fallacy of mistaking a part for the whole, and later concluded that "sign-science and life-science are co-extensive", a thesis establishing the framework for studying the action of signs throughout the realm of living things, or biosemiotics. The present essay addresses the question of whether the unnecessarily reductive interpretation of this thesis as restricting sign-action to the living world is not itself a further illustration of Sebeok's pars pro toto fallacy, inasmuch as communication involves sign-activity whether it occurs in the living world or the non-living world of inanimate beings.

Aristotle, calling man "political by nature," predetermined the actual opportunity to consider politics through the prism of practical action, through specific ways of equitable arrangement of public life. Thrown into a digital existence, where the ambivalent task of realizing one's vulnerable position arises, exposing oneself to risk, while simultaneously navigating the indefinite space of a dynamically developing community. The modern territory of politics is being mastered by actants with the help of a renewed arsenal of means, taking into account the meaning of design (de + signare), the signs of which acquire multiplication of ideas about complexly organized integrity of its image. Integration ties of semiosis "sew through" the heterotopy of the renewed territory of political action, putting down the chronological framework of events in sign expression (index, symbol, code, number), to compare and supplement possible transformational semiotic shifts and confusions, thus creating a plausible and recognizable semiotic image of the current state of affairs in society. Semiotic representation emphasizes the sign, symbolic nature of political action as a political event, realized by its subject in the process of normogenesis and anchored in the pragmatics of everyday activity. Conditional analytical dismemberment of the process of semiosis (syntactics, semantics, pragmatics) of political action initiates the synchronization of methodological synthesis, which leads to the co-creation of the subject and structure at the level of reflective analysis. This allows us to add the "included third", traditional for the transdisciplinary methodological approach, into the agent-structure dichotomy, which is classic for the science of politics, serving as a target reason for creating integral image of political action. It should be noted that the "included third" as the target cause does not guarantee the unambiguity of the outcome of the formation of the specified action, but only adjusts the optics of tracking its possible configurations, taking into account both contextual and environmental conditionality.

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All organisms are autonomous, self-organizing wholes separated by semi-permeable boundaries from a surrounding environment. Across these boundaries conveyances of action and passion are channeled through efferent and afferent pathways. I analyze this scheme in terms of two fundamental processes: semiosis and control. I propose a unified account of the functioning of semiosis and of controlling and controlled actions by viewing organisms as systems that separate their responses (actions) from the actions their environment exerts upon them (passions). Semiosis and goal-directed action are seen as complementary forms of causation. Examples from cell physiology and the functioning of efferent and afferent pathways in plants and animals illustrate and expand these ideas.
Based on this interpretation of the relations between semiosis and control I reach a generalized conception of purposeful action, linking the expansion of semiotic capacities throughout biological evolution to a concomitant increase in an organism's powers for intervention in its environment.
The fruitfulness of these ideas is substantiated through examples showing how they make intelligible phenomena previously deemed disparate. Examples include similarities and differences between signs and instruments, and analogies in the evolution of organisms and artifacts.