Transduce

General Definition

The verb “transduce” is reformulated here as an ontological operation, distinct from translation and representation. Inherited from cybernetics, biology, and the philosophy of individuation, it acquires in the Ontology of Emergent Complexity the meaning of a symbolic gesture that reorganizes tensions between heterogeneous fields, without fidelity to the origin or a prior plan. Transducing is co-articulating unstable regimes in a new symbolic field.

Ontological Variations in the Ontology of Emergent Complexity

Transduce as Symbolic Emergence

Transducing is establishing a symbolic reorganization without a prior plan, causing new meanings to emerge from the friction between distinct regimes of language, experience, or matter.

Transduce as Symbolic Co-individuation

Each act of transduction transforms the elements in presence: it not only articulates them but co-individuates them. The real and thought reorganize simultaneously, in a symbolic operation that modifies them in common.

Transduce versus Translate

Translation aims for equivalence; transduction, for transformation. There is no fidelity to the origin, but the production of new symbolic configurations — what is transduced is not the content, but the regime of emergence.

Co-individuation and Ontological Frontier

By co-individuating, transduction operates in limit-zones: it reorganizes frontiers between symbolic regimes and exposes the system to its own operative incompleteness.