Edwina,
Given your objective, you will find the fundamental source of "the triad" in the
Laws of Form, which ends with the statement: "We see now that the first distinction,
the mark, and the observer are not only interchangeable, but, in the form,
identical." For the answer to the question of how "self-organizing", i.e.,
living systems work you really should start with Illobrand von Ludwiger's monogram on
"The New Worldview of the Physicist Burkhard Heim." Yes, the mathematics is
extremely difficult, but Heim was as good or maybe better that Einstein in giving a
general, but intelligent, audience explanation of his theory. Von Ludwiger does an
outstanding job in pulling it all together.
One of the things I told the folks on another forum is that whenever you see the word
"tensor" think "form" because that is what they are in essence.
Tensors are multi-compartmented distinctions that have their own rules that are an
addition to the Calculus of Indications developed by GSB in Laws of Form.
Best regards,
Lyle