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Bio-semiotics is a new approach to the explanation of living. The central thesis of bio-semiotics, “life is semiosis”, is a basis for a new science of living which should replace contemporary (or traditional) biology. The reason is that bio-semiotics reveals new qualities of living, which are inaccessible through the methods of contemporary, pure empirical biology. The paper outlines basic theses of bio-semiotics, distinguishes two main approaches, and challenges the central thesis with the focus upon its interpretation in “scientific” bio-semiotics.