The emergence of meaning at the co-evolutionary level: An epistemological approach

At the biological level what is innate is the result of an evolutive process "programmed" by natural selection. Natural selection is the coder (once linked to the emergence of meaning): at the same time at this level the emergence process is indissolubly correlated to the continuous construction of new cognitive formats in accordance with the unfolding of ever-new mathematics, a mathematics that necessarily moulds coder's activity. Hence the necessity of articulating and inventing a mathematics capable of engraving itself in an evolutive and self-organizing landscape. In this sense, for instance, the realms of non-standard models and non-standard analysis represent, today, a fruitful perspective from which to point out, in mathematical terms, some of the basic concepts concerning the articulation of an adequate intentional information theory. This individuation, on the other hand, presents itself not only as an important theoretical achievement but also as one of the essential bases of our very evolution as intelligent organisms. (c) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.