Guenther Witzany

I'm an independent philosopher which founded the 1st Philosophische Praxis in Austria in 1985. My expertise reaches from philosophy of science, philosophy of language and communication, pragmatic action theory until philosophy of biology. I initiated an orginal approach on „biocommunication and natural genome editing“: The biocommunicative approach investigates both communication processes within and among cells, tissues, organs and organisms as sign-mediated interactions, and nucleotide sequences as code, i.e. language-like text, which follows in parallel three (3) kinds of rules: combinatorial (syntactic), context-sensitive (pragmatic) and content-specific (semantic). Natural genome editing from a biocommunicative perspective is competent agent-driven generation and integration of meaningful nucleotide sequences into pre-existing genomic content arrangements and the ability to (re-)combine and (re-)regulate them according to context-dependent (i.e. adaptational) purposes of the host organism. From 2010 to 2020 biocommunication theory was applied to all domains of life. More than 450 leading experts wrote chapters in a series of 10 books on biocommunication. This represents an empirically reasoned justification for a non-reductive and non-mechanistic understanding of life.

research: www.biocommunication.at

I organized some meetings with leading experts:

Natural Genetic Engineering and Natural Genome Editing: www.naturalgenome.at

DNA Habitats and Their RNA Inhabitants www.RNA-agents.at

Evolution – Genetic Novelty/Genomic Variations by RNA Networks and Viruses www.RNA-networks.at

How Evolution Learnt to Learn- Epigenetics of Experienced Context www.evolution-learns.at