2014). Further, the relationship of habit structure to habit structure, as concerns especially the emergence of "semiotic freedom" (Hoffmeyer 1996, 2010), can best be understood in terms of how habits simultaneously make themselves necessary AND necessarily irrelevant: here I follow Hofstadter (2007) and his concept of "responsible irrelevance" (2007), what I call "irrealevance". The question is this: how has nature been able to seal itself off from that for which it is responsible in order to open up its own future?" /> The "irrealevance" of habit formation - Coletta John | sdvig press