*Energy, Semiosis and Emergence*
- The place of biosemiotics in an evolutionary conception of nature
*Autonomy, i.e., selfruling or self-regulation, is a distinctive mark of
organisms and living systems in general.*
*Organisms are parts of the world that segregate themselves from the rest
of it (their environment) through structures (membranes) *
*that allow selective passage of various forms of matter, energy and
information in and out of their constituted interior.* http://goo.gl/6mfPLZ