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Figure 10.12 The Hertz model of reality based on Statement (10.18) as interpreted by

H. Pattee in [biosemiotics:7829], [email protected], dated December 22, 2014.

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Figure 10.11 The model of reality proposed by H. Pattee in [biosemiotics:7829], biose-

[email protected], dated December 22, 2014.

One advantage of the Hertz model is that it explicitly includes time,

whereas the PPM diagram implies that “time is encoded in matter”

through what is referred to as the Prigoginian mechanism of encoding

time into matter discussed in Section 9.3. Thus, the Hertz/Pattee diagram

can be viewed as the combination of the two PPM diagrams applied at two

time points — Time 1 and Time 2 in Figure 10.11. One disadvantage of

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