The Evolution of Meaning - A Behavioral Framework from Plant Psychology to General Behavior

The Evolution of Meaning is a reflective synthesis on how behavior, state, history, and meaning became one developmental language. Beginning with plants as the first visible teacher, the paper follows the hidden space between condition and response, asking why the same signal can lead to different outcomes in different systems. What emerges is a framework for reading behavior not as isolated output, but as meaning made visible through time, consequence, and becoming.