environment
Sign in to saveAlso known as self-centered world, environment of organisms
thumb|"Early Scheme for a circular Feedback Circle" from Theoretische Biologie 1920 thumb|Small circular Feedback Pictograms between the Text thumb|Schematic view of a cycle as an early biocyberneticist An umwelt (plural: umwelten; from the German Umwelt, meaning "environment" or "surroundings") is the specific way in which organisms of a particular species perceive and experience the world, shaped by the capabilities of their sensory organs and perceptual systems.
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thumb|"Early Scheme for a circular Feedback Circle" from Theoretische Biologie 1920 thumb|Small circular Feedback Pictograms between the Text thumb|Schematic view of a cycle as an early biocyberneticist An umwelt (plural: umwelten; from the German Umwelt, meaning "environment" or "surroundings") is the specific way in which organisms of a particular species perceive and experience the world, shaped by the capabilities of their sensory organs and perceptual systems.
In the semiotic theories of Jakob von Uexküll and Thomas Sebeok, it is considered to be the "biological foundations that lie at the very center of the study of both communication and signification in the human [and non-human] animal". Often translated as "self-centered world," the term highlights how organisms, despite sharing the same physical environment, can inhabit distinct perceptual realities.