Andreas Weber (1967) is a German biologist, philosopher, biosemiotician and journalist. As an independent scientist, he explores a new understanding of life as meaning, or “biopoetics” (“poetic ecology”). See more of Weber’s texts on the Pilgrim website. Hildegarda Kurt (1958) is a German cultural researcher, associate professor of social sculpture, founder and director of the Institute for Art, Culture and the Future in Berlin (2004). For many years, she has collaborated with a student…