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It is argued that a true transdisciplinary information science going from physical</div>
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information to phenomenological understanding needs a metaphysical framework. Three</div>
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different kinds of causality are implied: efficient, formal and final. And at least five</div>
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different levels of existence are needed: 1. The quantum vacuum fields with entangled</div>
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causation. 2. The physical level with is energy and force-based efficient causation. 3. The</div>
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informational-chemical level with its formal causation based on pattern fitting. 4. The</div>
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biological-semiotic level with its non-conscious final causation and 5. The social-linguistic</div>
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level of self-consciousness with its conscious goal-oriented final causation. To integrate</div>
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these consistently in an evolutionary theory as emergent levels, neither mechanical</div>
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determinism nor complexity theory are sufficient because they cannot be a foundation for a</div>
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theory of lived meaning. C. S. Peirce&rsquo;s triadic semiotic philosophy combined with a</div>
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cybernetic and systemic view, like N. Luhmann&rsquo;s, could create the framework I call</div>
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Cybersemiotics.&nbsp;</div>