First Sentence

"In a debate on "Complexity and emergence", we should first of all provide clear definitions for these terms, in order to ascertain how much of what we say depends on our cultural bias, is an artifact of our linguistic tools, and how much corresponds to hard facts, to our embedding in an open environment, whose features, even though actively elaborated by our semantic memory, can not be taken as sheer "autopoiesis", but are grounded on an ontology."