There are, it is true, limitations inherent in the organic perceptual apparatus, but they do not apply to the content of perception. One cannot achieve everything by means of physical force but one can make things happen relatively free of preconditions. Of course, this quality cannot be taken for granted, but is in its turn dependent on the symbolic processes, which give it its form, for in the natural lifeworld there is to begin with no pure physical force, no context-free perception, no libido as such seeking a partner. It is a function of the media-code at the outset to give a symbiotic mechanism freedom, so that the fact that it is not anchored to the symbolic level and is independent from specific meaning-structures can be exploited.

DEFINE: Clarifies how media-code functions to free symbiotic mechanisms from dependency on specific meaning-structures.

Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, loc. 705