A growing field of inquiry, biosemiotics is a theory of cognition and communication that unites the living and the cultural world. What is missing from this theory, however, is the unification of the information and computational realms of the non-living natural and technical world. Cybersemiotics provides such a framework.
By integrating cybernetic information theory into the unique semiotic framework of C. S. Peirce, Soren Brier attempts to find a unified conceptual frame work encompassing the complex area of information, cognition, and communication science. The integration is performed through Niklas Luhmann's autopoietic systems theory of social communication. The link between cybernetics and semiotics is further an ethological and evolutionary theory of embodiment combined with Lakoff and Johnson's 'philosophy in the flesh.' This demands the development of a transdisciplinary philosophy of knowledge: as common sense as well as it is cultured in the humanities and the sciences. Such an epistemological and ontological frame work is also developed in the book.
Cybersemiotics not only builds a bridge between science and culture, but it also provides at framework encompassing them both. The Cyber-semiotic framework offers a platform for a new level of global dialogue between knowledge systems including a view of science that does not compete with religion but offers the possibility for mutual and fruitful exchange.
