The Reference problem

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        In traditional philosophy epistemic cuts are viewed as problems only at the cognitive 
        level. They are called problems of reference or how symbols come to "stand for" or to "be 
        about" material structures and events [7,22,52]. I have always found the complementary 
        problem much more fundamental: How do material structures ever come to be symbolic? I 
        think if we fully understood how molecules become messages in cells we would have some 
        understanding of how messages have meaning. That is why the origin of life problem is 
        important for philosophy
      
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