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The process of elaboration of the symbolic universe leads to exciting insights regarding the search for human emotional security. The symbols end up as explanatory axes of universal reality and on them were constructed myths that form a superstructure for belief systems. Human society is a multilevel system with a material structure (society), an ideological superstructure (belief systems, values, etc) and a supersuperstructure with two parts: mythical (origin and justification) and utopic (final goal). All mythical belief systems have a numinous-religious nature.

The goal of this article is to build an abstract mathematical theory rather than a computational one of the process of transmission of ideology. The basis of much of the argument is Patten's Environment Theory that characterizes a system with its double environment (input or stimulus and output or response) and the existing interactions among them. Ideological processes are semiotic processes, and if in Patten's theory, the two environments are physical, in this theory ideological processes are physical and semiotic, as are stimulus and response. V C 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Complexity 21: [47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65] 2015

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