0280 Tabaczek’s re-allocates Deacon’s treatment of emergence, without the benefit of Peirce’s category-based nested form.  Razie Mah examines Tabaczek’s re-allocation using two works, A Primer on the Category-Based Nested Formand A Primer on Sensible and Social Construction.

The result in the Deacon-Tabaczek interscope for emergence.

0281 What can I say?

Obviously, a three-level interscope is a nested form composed of nested forms.

In this interscope, Deacon’s terminology is used.

To begin, consider Deacon’s labels for the three levels.

0282 On the content-level, a thermodynamic process that tends towards equilibrium (in a spontaneous sort of way)_3abrings the actuality of a contained circulation of ingredients_2a, where reagents are separated so that some of the free-energy of their reaction can be captured, into relation with (a situationally induced) displacement from equilibrium_1a.

For example, if a dam extracts the gravitational potential and kinetic energy released in a river flowing downstream, then the content-level is the adjusted spontaneous process of water flowing downstream.

0283 On the situation-level, a homeodynamic process capable of extracting the captured energy_3b brings the actuality of the embodiment of the captured energy_2b into relation with the potential of the various constraints and biases imposed on the content-level nested form_1b.

For the example of the hydroelectric dam_3b, water is channeled in such a fashion as to drive a turbine_1b that produces alternate (and sometimes, direct) voltage in a wire cable_2b.  The emergent being is electrical “current”_2b.

0284 On the perspective-level, a morphodynamic process_3c, capable of utilizing the energy captured by the emergent being_1c, generates a persisting form_2c.  The persistent form is like an end point of the emergence_2c, because it_2c not only dissipates the potential_1c of the emergent being_2b but it_2c “forms” something_2c in the process_3c.  Here, Deacon’s terminology sounds oblique and, perhaps, misleading.  The dissipative power_2c persists as a form_2c, yet “dynamic form” labels the normal context_3c.  Also, the potential of the emergent being_1c is a “simplification”, of sorts.  But, is “simplification_1c” a satisfying term?

For example, a morphodynamic process_3c takes the potential of the alternative electric voltage… or is it current?… in a wire connected (however distantly) to the aforementioned turbine_1c and performs some sort of work, such as heating my morning toast_2b.

0285 Yes, the example sounds lame.  But, with butter and apricot jam, the emergence is really quite satisfying.