Autopoietic cognitive systems (like the human psyche/mind) can not escape their semiosphere. The tautological circle of sign-processing can not be bypassed. Whatever we deem crossing the self-constituted/-constituent border of the human mind can only be processed by the human mind as self-constituted and self-constituent sign. Whatever such an autopoietic system knows about Umwelt (environment) is a sign-construct inside …