In modelling the categorisable, such as two domains: the material and the semiotic, semiosis is modelled as a process that goes on in the perceivable universe, in the same sense that galaxy formation and supernova explosions are processes that go on in the perceivable universe. Asking and answering the question ‘Why is there something instead of nothing?’ are processes that go on in the perceivable universe. Making meaning of the perceivable universe is something that organisms do, part of the universe recognising itself. Meaning is not of the categorisable domain of which meaning is made, nor does it transcend the domain of interactions (the perceivable universe) in which it occurs.