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semiotic processes in the order of increasing complexity (defined as the

number of bits required to describe a process completely) resulting in

Figure 10.22.

The symbol A → B in Figure 10.9 can be read in more than one

way (i.e., has more than one meaning):

1. A is the necessary (but not necessarily sufficient) condition for B.


2. A precedes B ontologically.


3. B is the emergent property of A; or B emerges from A.


4. B is enabled by A.


5. B is determined by A and the environmental condition.


6. B supervenes on A.


7. “A → ” symbolizes the combination of the system and its environ-
   ment, recently referred to as the “systome” (see Section 2.5).

The key point of this section is the suggestion that all the network

representations of practopoiesis given in Figure 10.18 embody the

ur-category depicted in Figure 10.9 (see also Figure 2.2 in Section 2.1.2).

This diagram is in turn a geometric representation of ITR that has been

found to apply to natural and human sciences, and mathematics (see

f g

DNA/RNAProteinsChemical Waves

h

Figure 10.21 Gene expression as semiosis. f = transcription/translation; g = catalysis;

h = genetic constraint, genetic information flow. The molecular agents in proteins that

drive catalysis are suggested to be conformons [6, 65].

Chemicalreactions Enzyme catalysisGene expression Practopoiesis Semiosis

Figure 10.22 The five levels of semiosis, from molecules to mind, that underlie the

mind–body relation. Semiosis includes the macrosemiosis of the Peircean semiotics and

the microsemiosis investigated in cell language theory and biosemiotics [19–23].

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