J. Augustus Bacigalupi is a Junior Research Fellow at the University of Tartu, in the Institute of Semiotics and Philosophy. As a PhD candidate under the supervision of Kalevi Kull and Donald Favareau, his research in biosemiotics is focused on semiogenesis, which, via a novel system theoretic model, explores the transfinite virtual potential of relevant noise in the continuous, irreducible and irreversible process of semiosis. More generally, this exploration of semiosis intends to contribute to a more complete and coherent understanding of sentience in living beings.