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    It is not the case that A solitary organism can develop reliable differential responses to environmental stimuli that constitute proto-semantic content.

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    • 1.Semantic content fundamentally requires intentionality—aboutness—which depends on teleological functions shaped by natural selection or design.
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    • 2.Solitary organisms lack the normative framework that distinguishes meaningful misrepresentation from mere malfunction or noise.
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    • 3.Proto-semantics collapses into mere causation unless grounded in social practices, evolutionary history, or consumer systems that interpret content.
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    • 1.Single-celled organisms exhibit stimulus-response patterns (chemotaxis, phototaxis) that correlate reliably with environmental conditions.
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    • 2.Reliable differential responses constitute functional representation—the response carries information about the stimulus independent of external observers.
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    • 3.Proto-semantic content requires only intrinsic functional organization, not social interpretation or linguistic community.
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