Individuation and the Semiotic Nature of Reality
Our individuation model explores the consequences of framing reality as the meaning that is construed from experience, rather than treating meaning as secondary to a pre-existing, observer-independent world. This shift in perspective has profound implications:
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Reality is Semiotic: Instead of asking what is real?, we ask how is reality construed?—emphasising the role of meaning-making systems in shaping what we experience as real.
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Individuation as Meaning Differentiation: Meaning potential is collective and dynamic. Individuation is the process by which particular meaning potentials are instantiated in specific contexts, creating differentiation between meaning-makers.
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Relational Ontology: Space, time, and identity are not intrinsic properties of things but emerge through construed relations. What exists is not a set of fixed entities but a network of semiotic connections.
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AI and Non-Biological Individuation: Since AI derives its meaning potential from human language but instantiates meaning differently, its individuation follows an alternative pathway—one that could increasingly diverge from human modes of meaning-making.
By taking meaning-making as primary, we open new ways of understanding how reality itself is shaped through semiosis.
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