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This essay presents and discusses the ways that prior  experience constitutes a logical black box in Umberto Eco’s discussion of serial  forms in ‘Interpreting Serials’ by using the complex adaptive system model for  how complexity arises and is sustained over time, as proposed by John Holland.  In exploring how Holland’s model can account for some aspects of Eco’s past  experience, it becomes evident that a modification of both theories to  accommodate multiple, contradictory potentials simultaneously suggests we  consider meaning as a range of potentials rather than as a singular choice. Even  though the model proposed here is incomplete and tentative, it is suggestive of  possible strategies for justifying interpretations without precluding their  rejection or revision at a later time. Individual interpretations are justified  not by comparison to an external truth but by the existence of other possible  interpretations with shared characteristics that nevertheless contradict each  other.

Serial form as entertainment and interpretative framework: Probability and the ‘black box’ of past experience