Semiosis as a Source of Providing Empirical Phenomena with a New Type of Cohesion

Abstract

Embodying the indexical signs is vital to semiosis as a cohesive material agency mediating between consequents and antecedents. One unique factor of biology compared with standard physics and chemistry is the cohesion enabling the biological components, codes and organizations to accommodate themselves with a specific material embodiment. Every individual body is uniquely biological and requires a specific cohesion of material origin for its own sake that could not be found in the non-living material world. The relevant cohesion comes from the exchange interaction of the atomic quantum particles, such as the carbon atoms, which is far greater than the electrons as a common exchange mediator adopted for the spatial cohesion ubiquitous in physics and chemistry. What is specific to the temporal cohesion latent in the atomic exchange is the immutable identity of the individual quantum particle surviving only over a limited time, while being constantly alternated with the new ones of the same kinds in a successive manner. Semiosis is supported by the underlying teleonomic cohesion, such that the preceding temporal cohesion may constantly induce the succeeding similar one ad infinitum.

Toward the Relational Formulation of Biological Thermodynamics

“…The stable non-equilibrium state is realized via the mutual resonant self-synchronization of many physiological processes in a living body [97]. This process represents a temporal cohesion that underlies semiosis and generates biological order [98,99] via the retrocausal action [100]. The explanation based on temporal cohesion and retrocausality represents an alternative to the explanation via negentropy.…”