About two decades ago, scholars from the scientific disciplines that study human behavior and cognition, suggested an era of post-cognitivism was imminent, in which the computer metaphor, computationalism and representationalism would be discarded as viable theoretical frameworks for explaining phenomena of the body and the mind. In the present paper I argue that explanations of complex adaptive behavior require a theory of meaning mechanics that explains how complex adaptive systems can use semantic information to coordinate their behavior. This calls for a unification of sorts between the insights obtained in ecological psychology and embodied embedded cognition with principles of natural computation (cf. Decastro, 2007) in the context of explaining the behavior and properties of complex adaptive systems and networks (see e.g., Freeman et al., 2001; Chialvo, 2010; Flack, 2017a; Scheffer et al., 2018). I will refer to this framework as Radical Embodied Computation (REC++) and discuss some of the philosophical and theoretical issues that have to be resolved. I conclude by suggesting a mechanism for the emergence of meaning that is based the conception of self-affine scaling as the reproduction of similarity by analogy.