SUBIT

Minimal Semiotic State-Space Framework

SUBIT = WHO × WHERE × WHEN

A cybersemiotic framework for modeling state transitions in complex systems. It combines second-order cybernetics, Peircean semiotics, and dynamical systems theory into a minimal operational grammar.

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The Three Scales

Coordinate	Scale	Domain
WHO	MICRO	Internal agency, subjectivity (ME/WE/YOU/THEY)
WHERE	MACRO	Environmental position, context (EAST/SOUTH/WEST/NORTH)
WHEN	META	Observer reflexivity, time (SPRING/SUMMER/AUTUMN/WINTER)

Any semiotic process involves all three scales simultaneously.

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The 64 States

Each coordinate takes 4 values → 4³ = 64 states.

WHO:   ME (10) • WE (11) • YOU (01) • THEY (00)
WHERE: EAST (10) • SOUTH (11) • WEST (01) • NORTH (00)
WHEN:  SPRING (10) • SUMMER (11) • AUTUMN (01) • WINTER (00)

|SUBIT| = |{0,1}⁶| = 64

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Archetypal Correspondences

The 64-state configuration space naturally corresponds to:

• I Ching – 64 hexagrams (6 lines = 6 bits)
• Genetic code – 64 codons (4³)
• Cybersemiotic archetypes – 64 fundamental configurations of agency, space, and time

Isomorphism of transition structures, not identity of systems

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Core Principles

1. Minimal operational grammar – not another philosophy, but a working state-space machine
2. Anti-reductionism – same topology across domains does not imply same ontology
3. Second-order cybernetics – observer (WHEN = META) is always included
4. Semiotic transitions – change of state = interpretive act

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Quick Start

from subit import SubitState, Who, Where, When

# Create a state
state = SubitState(Who.ME, Where.EAST, When.SPRING)

# Get 6-bit representation (I Ching hexagram)
print(state.to_hexagram())  # "101010"

# Shift coordinates cyclically
next_state = state.shift_who(1)   # ME → WE

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Repository Structure

subit/
├── README.md
├── LICENSE
├── STRATEGY.md
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├── formalism/          # Formal definitions
├── src/                # Python implementation
├── simulations/        # Random walks, attractors
├── tests/              # Unit tests
├── cybersemiotics/     # Integration with Brier, Peirce, Luhmann
├── docs/               # Why WHO-WHERE-WHEN?
└── manifesto/          # Conceptual foundations

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Roadmap

• Minimal formalism
• Core Python implementation
• 3D state-space visualization
• Interactive SUBIT State Explorer
• Category-theoretic reconstruction
• ArXiv papers

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Relationship to Cybersemiotics

SUBIT provides the missing operational layer for:

• Søren Brier – Cybersemiotic Star
• Charles Sanders Peirce – Triadic semiosis
• Niklas Luhmann – Social systems theory
• Humberto Maturana & Francisco Varela – Autopoiesis

It does not replace these theories. It offers a minimal grammar of state transitions that can be mapped onto them.

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License

MIT