ABSTRACT
Representational patterns are encountered in particular contexts, defined by the relative autonomy of the organism from the environment in which one lives, from one’s biological substrate, from the external and internal environment, and from the medium of one’s message. Cognition is characterized as a dynamic process between the representational and the nonrepresentational, or presentational. The consideration of medium naturally leads to the consideration of expression. The unconstrained variability of context rendering fixed semantic definitions in principle impossible is markedly demonstrated by contextual expressions. The argument from context may be considered in reference to various domains of human behaviour. Cognitive scientists have so far focused their attention on the representational perspective. It appears that, quite generally, the representational account entails characterizations that from a developmental perspective are unnatural. The argument from development is concerned with two problems. The first is the problem of origin and the second that of sequencing.
