0136 Here a map of the general functional circle.

Maybe the circle should be enclosed within the brackets of [habit].

0137 This leads to a question.

What do the authors, Sharov and Tonnessen, offer that cybernetics does not?

Answer: They offer a more semiotic friendly overlay.

0138 One does not see sign-processes bubbling within a noumenon such as choice [habit] wish.

One sees the semiotics within S&T’s noumenal overlay.

The triadic specifying sign-relation has been converted into a noumenal dyad, consistent with Peirce’s category of secondness and reminiscent of Aristotle’s hylomorphe.

Plus, the resulting phenomena are better delineated.  The real-initiating event associates to the SV_s.  The dyad of information [and] goal associates to the SO_s.  These phenomena can be witnessed by any human because the S&T noumenal overlay not only applies to humans, but humans are adapted to this actuality₂, which is independent of the adapting genus_2a.

Finally, the things that needs to be modeled, [the contiguity between SO_s and SV_s] and [the continuity within SO_s],directly and indirectly pertain to SI_s.

0139 Chapter Two ends and brings Part I to a conclusion with a promise.

A journey awaits the biosemiotician.

Where can the S&T noumenal overlay take us?

As far as the functional circle goes, the S&T noumenal overlay offers an image that is far more clarifying than choice [habit] wish.

Indeed, the functional circle resides within the sign-interpretant of the specifying sign-relation (SI_s).