ABSTRACT
In the history of philosophy, Descartes is the founder of modern thought and its liberation of medieval scholastics and Aristotelian ties. The gastrular system, in contrast to the noetic and the neurular, has a primary outer system, transmits consequently knowledge based on bodily existence of the world. Also, the simple premises from which Descartes wants to depart in his thoughts, are inspired by the gastrular system. The biosemiotic pan-entheism is founded much more scientifically than Spinoza's pantheism, because of the evolutionary nature of the sign systems. Consciousness of the ego and the self of leaders of society in the Baroque and subsequent Rococo period, were not yet characterized by back-to-earth matter-of-fact-ness, typical for Modern Times and influenced by science. Biosemiotic theory of evolution starts from intra-organismic sign systems, that is, an application from the natural sciences.
