  The explicit relationship among perception, communication, and design is
being discussed in some detail, in order to relate it to characteristic details
of the modeling of the world which defines the scientific and artistic
activities of humans, in the first place, but also the philosophical grasping
of the world and its foundations in order to position humankind within this
worldly framework, at the same time. In particular, the structure and
constitutional role of language are being analyzed with a view to the latter's
universality. For the special case of synergetics (within the recent context of
theories of self-organization and the formation of structure), this cognitive
background is being inspected as to possible consequences for aspects of
complexity and nonlinearity.
