The overall structure of this book is as yet formless. The goal is to provides some foundation for the cognitive structure of the universe, or rather to provide some outlines of territories to be explored toward that end.

Just about all of the ideas here are borrowed from others and maybe all that is original is how some of the dots are connected. To borrow a saying as well, I am priviledged to stand on the shoulders of giants, and to be able to transmit my small contributions into a connected world that has probably already discovered much of this itself in various corners where the new thought centers are emerging. I don't so much invent as observe and compile the collective productions of an emergent, networked collective intelligence.

With the tools provided by a revived Piercean Semiotics connected to an expanding and deepening theory of the emergence of autopoietic systems theory, we find the basis for a complete theory of cognition grounded in a semiotic interpretation of the physical world. We will find that not only are all the biological systems composed of nested (fractal) complexes of autopoietic systems all the way down to the physio-chemical substrate explored by modern science, but the human social processes of science, discovery and all of human thought are also best understood in tems of autopoiesis. As networks of self-reproducing (textual (ref)) processes. Again, it is turtles all the way down (ref).