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Prof. Søren Brier
Dr. Søren Brier (born 1951 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is Professor in the Semiotics of Information, Cognition and Communication Sciences at the Centre for Language, Cognition and Mentality in the Department of International Culture and Communication Studies at Copenhagen Business School, where he has been teaching philosophy of science and semiotics to students of various degree programs.

Dr. Brier's degrees include: (1) MS in Biology from University of Copenhagen, (2) Ph.D. in Philosophy of Science at University of Roskilde, and (3) Doctor (Habil) of Philosophy at CBS, a post-doctoral degree. He is the founder and editor of the interdisciplinary quarterly journal Cybernetics & Human Knowing, a fellow of the American Society for Cybernetics, and has been awarded with The Warren McCulloch Award. Dr. Brier is also a member of the board of the International Association For Biosemiotic Studies and its Journal of Biosemiotics, as well as an active member of the scientific board of The Science of Information Institute and Foundation of Information Science, and of several scientific journals.

Søren Brier’s primary research subject areas are:

1. Cybersemiotics: A transdisciplinary unification of cybernetics, system theory, semiotics and embodied linguistics.

2. Cross- and trans-disciplinary knowledge generation and exchange as well as the question of the autonomy and interaction of transdisciplinary frameworks in relation to mono-disciplinary science

3. Cybernetics (second order), autopoiesis and system theory

4. Bio-semiotic cognition- and communication theory

5. Information and computation philosophies including AI and AL.

6. Semiotics of information, cognitive and communication science.

7. C.S. Peirce’s semiotic philosophy of mind, nature and knowledge and Niklas Luhmann’s systemic communicative view on the same subject area.

8. Philosophy and theory of social, technical and natural sciences with humanities and their possible integration to a grander view.

9. Science communication and interaction with spiritual, religious, political and philosophical world views and paradigms in the subjective as well as the intersubjective life world.

10.	Mind-body theories in difference philosophies and spiritual systems.

11.	Methodology and ontology as well as theory of knowledge across all knowledge systems.

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