So far, I’ve been focusing on the internal or intra-personal aspects of the odel. Semantic fields, however, extend beyond the isolated individuals; the theory seeks to address the transpersonal or non-local aspects of mind. A fundamental postulate here is that perception is not solely an interpretational process, but also a projective process, creating a semantic organizational level in objects and the environment--what I term eco-semantic fields. 

Thus consciousness is imprinting organization and order on the physical world, by influencing and modifying the eco-fields of objects. Consequently, the mind is not a closed system, its operations purely internal as in the symbolic framework. To the contrary, it is viewed as a complex network system that interacts dynamically with other complex systems--whether individuals' noo-fields, or objects eco-fields.

I further postulate that the semantic dimension whether in individuals or in objects) is organized not by space-time parameters, but by semantic parameters--such as semantic proximity, recurrence, intensity, and linkage-types. In other words, these parameters instantiate nonlocal connections and mutual influences between distant semantic fields. This is not a dualistic position, but reflects the neccessity to use specific parameters to account for different organizational levels of the mind-brain workings.

The position I am suggesting is in accordance with Jahn and Dunne's complementarity concept, (Jahn and Dunne, 1986, Jahn 1991), and Nelson's "subjective parameters" (such as "attentional proximity" and "intensity of subjective investment") (Nelson et al., 1996). This leads to two main developments that address both the interpersonal forms of psi exchanges, and those which involve person-object interactions.

Person-person exchanges. Communication between two individuals is grounded in dynamical semantic interactions that take place between them. Their "normal" communication create an interface-SeCo that organizes and binds the semantic clusters activated in the two lattices. In other words, while

interacting regularly with people, we develop nonlocal connections with them that, given sufficient recurrence and intensity, may become constant. This interface-SeCo, if reinforced and developed through further exchanges, will act as a nonlocal link between the two persons. Thus, if one of them has a strong experience that has some similarities with semantic clusters in the interface-seCo, then a semantic linkage will be triggered, activating these clusters; the activation may then spread through chain linkages, and via the interface-SeCo, reach into the other person's lattice. 

The activated SeCos (in the latter) may remain unconscious or provoke emergences of meaning in the flow of consciousness or in dreams. The emergent meaning may be strictly related to the activated clusters in a straightforward manner or may lead to derivative psi information concerning the other person's experience, by way of a back-propagation of chain-linkages. Thus, the semantic level allows for various spontaneous connections or linkages between spatially distant--but semantically proximate—semantic fields, with or without the person's immediate awareness (as seen in ESP occurrences and synchronicities.)

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