this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2026
28 points (100.0% liked)
Wikipedia
4594 readers
90 users here now
A place to share interesting articles from Wikipedia.
Rules:
- Only links to Wikipedia permitted
- Please stick to the format "Article Title (other descriptive text/editorialization)"
- Tick the NSFW box for submissions with inappropriate thumbnails
- On Casual Tuesdays, we allow submissions from wikis other than Wikipedia.
Recommended:
- Use the search box to see if someone has previously submitted an article. Some apps will also notify you if you are resubmitting an article previously shared on Lemmy.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I think the Wikipedia summary might be incomplete. Feedback cycles are central to von Uexküll’s theory. He described the Umwelt as a dynamic process where an organism's sense organs pick up cues from the environment, leading to actions that change the environment, which in turn creates new cues.
This would be a deeper dive: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/380319292_The_circulation_of_meaning_a_biosemiotic_perspective_on_the_functional_circle