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The present article discusses these key features of cybersemiotics and, in particular, their consequences for biosemiotics (to which cybersemiotics is a contributor). It argues that the constructivist basis of \u2018languaging\u2019 in the cybersemiotic project presents a potential impediment. It suggests that although \u2018language\u2019 is clearly in question in conceptualizing \u2018knowing\u2019 and \u2018observing\u2019, the main issue for cybersemiotics has to do with the more general process of \u2018modelling\u2019 that features in biosemiotics. 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