Modern understanding of signs and codes has substantially altered the situation. Today, we sharply separate the conceptualization of symbol systems as means of written human communication from both mathematical codes of machine communication and from natural signs emerging from the spontaneity of nature.

Biosemiotics demands, as you-Sam-, Bateson and others point out, a dynamic between the individual and the surrounding; the "home" or "ecosis" of the individual, the relatives that influence memory and learning in context of the genetic capabilities of the organism.

We need a new language to talk about these relationships as neither deductive or inductive logic really fits the reality of the situations.

George Soros speaks of "reflexivity" as one possible term to extend our vocabulary into the mutually influential relations that bind semiotics to values. Is this a good term for your purposes, Sam?

Cheers

Jerry