Place in Ontology
Text 11 is crucial to defining what OCE means by "emergence". It establishes that emergence is a process material e local, not a linguistic or semantic process. This clears the ground for a complexity theory that does not rely on "information" or "code" as universal explanatory principles.
The Specific Contribution
Demystification of Language
It strips language of its status as the "foundation of being." Language comes to be seen as a late and specific tool, not as the substance from which the world is made.
Autonomy of Physical Processes
It guarantees that physics, chemistry and biology have their own domain of validity, without needing to be translated into semiotic terms to be understood.
Basis for Registration
By separating matter and language, it creates the theoretical space to ask: so how does language arise from matter? This is the question that the next texts will begin to answer.