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Notes
1 Once systems of a new order of complexity have emerged, these systems will evolve together with systems of the lower order (“co-evolution”); and one consequence of this is that systems of different orders will evolve towards greater complexity together, in a kind of dialectic.
2 I’ll come back to Halliday’s (Citation2005) interpretation in some other contexts: he suggests that all systems can be interpreted as mixtures of the material and the semiotic, relating his interpretation to discussions of “information” (which he takes to be a special aspect of meaning – meaning that can be measured) as order in material systems.
3 In the case of the fishing activity, the members of the team may engage in chanting of some kind to help them get the right rhythm needed for the coordinated activity. I mention Kerala simply because that’s one place where I have observed this kind of activity, more specifically Kovalam Beach.
4 Cf. also my reference to a scene from Houston’s Beat the Devil in Matthiessen (Citation2014).