So here we get just
two microfunctions, which, privileging modulation over modalisation, we will
call the regulatory and the instrumental, since the field of
developmental biology construes such processes in terms of gene regulation. So:
the regulatory (subsuming interactional) microfunction is
concerned with the “me-&-you” domain of instances of the same genome and
the instrumental (subsuming
personal) microfunction is concerned with the domain of everything else, including instances
of a parent’s genome.
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So you can see that,
just as sociality emerges through the differentiation of cultural contexts by the probabilistic instantiation of
microfunctional meanings in interactions between social animals, so
multicellularity emerges through the differentiation of somatic (body) contexts
by the probabilistic instantiation of microfunctional meanings in interactions
between cells of the same genome.