The foregoing chapters have thus demonstrated that it is possible to understand the differentiation of systems of semiotic potential (in population of organisms) from general systems of behavioural potential (in individual organisms) as being the same general process as the differentiation of systems of somatic potentials (in population of cells) from general systems of biological potential (in individual cells). The general similarity is summarised in Table 13.1.
Genealogical Systems Information Content/Medium | Relation | Ecological Systems Information Expression |
biological potential | embeds within | individual cell |
somatic biological potentials | interact within | population of cells |
behavioural potential | embeds within | individual organism |
semiotic behavioural potentials | interact within | population of organisms |
Table 13.1 Homologies Across Complex Systems
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The foregoing chapters have demonstrated that the differentiation of systems of semiotic potential (in populations of organisms) from general systems of behavioural potential (in individual organisms) can be understood as the same general process by which systems of somatic biological potential (in populations of cells) differentiate from general systems of biological potential (in individual cells). That is, in both cases, a general potential embedded within individuals gives rise, through interaction in populations, to a differentiated system of interacting potentials.
This general similarity is summarised in Table 13.1: