A Biossemiótica e a Colisão do Modernismo com a Pós-modernidade

Abstract

I report here the development in the recently established biosemiotics – a science at the borderland of biology and semiotics. The kernel of discussions is in the question whether biosemiotics can develop into a standard science, or if the very nature of semiotics does not allow this. The second circle of disputes is the question concerning levels of semiotic development at different levels of organization of the living. I illustrate the problems on the recent exchange between the defender of scientifi c biosemiotics Marcello Barbieri, and the semiotician John Deely. I try to highlight the most interesting, hence most problematic points of the discussion, and
punctuate them with my own opinions.