Abstract

Open peer commentary on the article “A Critique of Barbieri’s Code Biology” by Alexander V. Kravchenko.: Code biology, as an offshoot of biosemiotics, opens up avenues to explore the possible emergence of meaning-making within a substrate of biological processes. Kravchenko’s focus on language and metaphysical baggage places a burden on code biology as a theory, but constrains philosophical dialogue because of far-reaching adjudicated implications.