ORGANISM
ENVIRONMENT
What is needed
Is:
Organic processes
leading to conscious sensation
I. Vitality
(Life)
Sensation
dynamical Object
II. Attentiveness
Conception (perceptual judgment & language)
III. Exploration of
relationships
is
and
is
...
At this point the
conception can
be detached from
the particular organism
that incubated it. It contains
information that is combinable with
other concepts and information; and that
combining can take place in any semiotic
medium—any part of the commens.
Next thought-sign
...
so
is
NB: The sequence: I. vitality, II. Attentiveness, III. Exploration of relations is equally,
from another perspective, the sequence: I. spontaneous thought-sign; II. “lawful,”
definite, definable, stable thought-sign; III. developing, growing, re-self-structuring
thought-sign.