The Question Of How Biological Systems Carry Out Recognition Events Through Systemic Functional Linguistics

Edelman (1992: 64):

First, we have to ask how biological systems carry out recognition events — how, without the transfer of preexisting, specifically coded messages, a biological system nonetheless specifically distinguishes one thing from another.

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From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic theory, answering this question involves a theoretical reconstrual of how experience is construed, in terms of the material domain of ideational meaning; that is, in terms of biological material processes and biological relational processes.

Moreover, Edelman's TNGS and Halliday's SFL share the same epistemological foundation: the "world" is not inherently "a labelled place", independent of "labelling" systems.