Figure 2 : Memory-based Self-organization -> local/distributed - Schéma

Figure 2

presents a taxonomy of self-organization dependent on some kind of memory. Notice that distributed

memory selected self-organization can achieve plenty of the characteristics of semantic closure I have been

discussing, however, without the attributes of local memory, that is, the symbolic dimension of

descriptions, we cannot achieve the sort of open-endedness discussed earlier, since construction is not

arbitrarily mediated by a code system [Umerez, 1995], but dependent on only those structures that happen

to be able to be communicated by template reproduction or self-inspection.