Thomas Sebeok and the Signs of Life

For Thomas Sebeok, semiotics not only addresses human verbal communication but embraces the study of all sign activity – which is indeed, Sebeok argues, the very definition of life in the universe. What does Sebeok's vision say, though, about ethics or the arts? For Thomas Sebeok, semiotics not only addresses human verbal communication but embraces the study of all sign activity – which is indeed, Sebeok argues, the very definition of life in the universe. What does Sebeok's vision say, though, about ethics or the arts?