Metalanguage

Most sufficiently complicated non-linear systems can be sufficiently described by a few handy rules of thumb. In the case of the way light interacts with groups of atoms we have color. For the change in the number of ways in which atoms can be organized given a change in the energy of any particular arrangement we have temperature. For organic chemistry there are a certain number of rules of thumb that allows an organic chemist to design and implement reactions in which they know how the chemicals will change given the pKa's, Gibbs free energy, proposed reaction mechanism, and other salient aspects of the reaction (these being a finite list).

What if the way in which our "rules of thumb" are generated could be generalized for any sufficiently complicated non-linear system. In other words, what if the constraints in the possible outcomes given any input could be formalized?

In more explicit terms, what if it was possible to generate a language which would create contraints given a particular input (or environment), which in turn would create unforseen constraints, which could then change the original constraints as well as the environment. In other words, a system which given a continual input of environmental variation produces both order (predictable or individually defined constraints) as well as unintended constraints (e.g. ensemble defined constraints, or the sum total of unexpected by-products from each individual constraint) which lead to greater environmental variation. This in turn leads to the creation of different predictable constraints which also creates more unintended constraints, which in turn continues to increase environmental variation. In nature the envirnoment is very rich and diverse (highly variable), which can be viewed as coming from the earth being an open system as well as the fact that life (the sum total of unexpected by-products of chemical reactions) arises from the laws of chemistry (predictable, individually defined constraints).

Such a language could be considered a metalanguage since it would be constantly bootstrapping its own meaning. Or in other words, if one thinks of the ensemble constraints as being a meaningful interpretation of the sum total of individual constraints between elements of the system, the system would be constantly producing meaningful and new interpretations of itself as it expanded outwards into greater and greater diversified forms. A language which writes itself.