?? What is the Distinct Thing We Want to Call It Meaning?

What is the distinct thing we want to call it meaning?

Conceptual options of dynamics, morphodynamics, and teleodynamics were illustrated by Daniel Dennett. Correspondingly, the control over causality inherent in these mechanisms is diminishing: if the response of a paramecium is invariably reflexive; then DNA transcription inherently allows for occasional variations; then what we call purposeful behaviours in individuals—predation, evasion, mating, reproduction—are roughly PID controllers.

What we refer to as meaning appears to emerge from a residual that does not pursue stable outcomes. Here causality weakens, the residual of signification increases, and the freedom of observable outcomes expands.

Meaning derives from a concession to contingency?