Volume 15 · Number 2 · Pages 135–137
Living and Languaging Are Self-Fabrication

Stephen John Cowley

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Abstract

Open peer commentary on the article “A Critique of Barbieri’s Code Biology” by Alexander V. Kravchenko. Abstract: While acknowledging that Kravchenko is correct in challenging code models of language, I defend Barbieri’s organic coding model of how molecular systems are manufactured. Viewed in a constructivist way, the model clarifies self-fabrication in both living and languaging.

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Cowley S. J. (2020) Living and languaging are self-fabrication. Constructivist Foundations 15(2): 135–137. https://constructivist.info/15/2/135

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