Ecosocial Dynamics of Self-organizing System-Networks

How do the dynamics of ecosystems including human semiotic artifacts and practices differ systematically in their dynamic potential from simpler ecosystems lacking (or with only much simpler) semiotic bases for couplings among system-constitutive processes? How does the role of semiotic artifacts and semiotic-material practices in such systems break the separability of scales typical of dynamical systems without semiotic mediation? What are the general consequences of interpenetration and overlapping (i.e. dynamical interdependence) of processes at very different temporal and spatial scales for the analysis of human meaning systems, specific events, and the time-development and evolution of ecosocial systems and system-types?




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