De la realidad biológica a la biologización de la realidad. La nueva metafísica biológica y el problema del conocimiento

Resumen

Biology, as a science, has evolved from the traditional Aristo­telian framework, as natural history, to a real science of the living well into the nineteenth century. During this long scientific prehis­tory, a more or less hidden vitalism was gradually overcome by the mechanistic conception of the Universe until an almost total takeover with the discovery of the double helix in 1953. Howe­ver, paradoxically, this physico-chemical mechanistic interpreta­tion has given way to a biologism whereby 'the real', as we know it, would only show itself as a reflection of the adaptive-homeos­tatic structure of cognition as a definition of the human. Thus, ali human intellectual projections, be it either of a scientific persua­sion or of a more properly metaphysical one, would have such an obvious Darwinian translation Oike if it were a 'universal acid', in the terms of Daniel Dennen) that even man's survival may de­pend on the conceptual inspection of anything cognitive not yet given a proper biological sense (solving, by the way, Wilfrid Se­llars' dilemma when comparing biological man -beliefs, wishes, intentions- to his physico-chemical alter ego).