In the light of the 'Sokal affair'of early 1996 1 (Sokal 1996a, b), it would be hazardous for us
to do other than state that this work is in no way intended as a parody; nor hopefully will it …

Natural systems are characterized more by the way they change than by their appearance at
any one moment in time. There is, however, no self-consistent theory capable of ascribing …

3. 1 Biosemiotics 7 7 3.2 Consciousness 79 3.3 Awareness versus consciousness 80 3.4
From awareness to consciousness 82 3.5 Scale and its implications 85 3.6 Hierarchy and its …

This last decade has seen the publication of an extensive literature describing, cataloguing
and analyzing the 'emergence'of complexity. This seems very strange. The creation of a …

The natural sciences experience great difficulty in addressing the nature of life. Most
particularly, self-consistent theories of observable scalar differences across biological …

Chaos, complexity and computation are especially important concepts with respect to both
the Evolution of biological systems and the evolution of the Universe. We consider each of …

The adoption of diffuse rationality creates a practical bridge between biosemiotics and
computation in formulating local-to-global self-consistent criteria for cellular-to-tissue …

Our initial premise is that computation as we know it is formally derived from our bodies'
internal processing, via our neural processors. Going backwards in time, our bodies' internal …

We consider resemblances between humans and other species, without adopting
categorical positions of either anthropomorphism or anti-anthropomorphism. Our target in …

We address the context within which 'Natural'computation can be carried out, and conclude
that a birational ecosystemic hierarchical framework would provide for computation which is …