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The art and science of #dynamical (non-trivial) systems that grow, learn, and generate #complexity. Integrating the work of Shannon, Ashby, Maturana and other thinkers in a theory that brings forth the original promise of #cybernetics and #systems_thinking
How can you fail to retain this kind of user ⁉️@bsky.app❓
November 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
How can you fail to retain this kind of user ⁉️@bsky.app❓
No serious philosophical or scientific discussion about #consciousness or #cognition in general can ignore #phenomenology, because all our knowledge is gained solely through lived experience.
See in particular Aron Gurwitsch’s "Field Theory of Consciousness"👇
journals.openedition.org/hel/3541?lan...
See in particular Aron Gurwitsch’s "Field Theory of Consciousness"👇
journals.openedition.org/hel/3541?lan...
October 2, 2025 at 3:28 AM
No serious philosophical or scientific discussion about #consciousness or #cognition in general can ignore #phenomenology, because all our knowledge is gained solely through lived experience.
See in particular Aron Gurwitsch’s "Field Theory of Consciousness"👇
journals.openedition.org/hel/3541?lan...
See in particular Aron Gurwitsch’s "Field Theory of Consciousness"👇
journals.openedition.org/hel/3541?lan...
A dynamical (adaptive) system 👇 in which its current (knowledge) #state determines input perception (what information or meaning is constructed from it) and the production of an output that best suits the current situation.
The state is historically maintained through the integration of information.
The state is historically maintained through the integration of information.
September 24, 2025 at 3:27 PM
A dynamical (adaptive) system 👇 in which its current (knowledge) #state determines input perception (what information or meaning is constructed from it) and the production of an output that best suits the current situation.
The state is historically maintained through the integration of information.
The state is historically maintained through the integration of information.
Pattee should also be required reading for politicians and everyone else holding an "office."
The majority don't realize that the reason they are "in charge" is that we, as a group, agree to follow the rules.
"The Physical Basis and Origin of Hierarchical Control."
www.academia.edu/863851/Hiera...
The majority don't realize that the reason they are "in charge" is that we, as a group, agree to follow the rules.
"The Physical Basis and Origin of Hierarchical Control."
www.academia.edu/863851/Hiera...
September 5, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Pattee should also be required reading for politicians and everyone else holding an "office."
The majority don't realize that the reason they are "in charge" is that we, as a group, agree to follow the rules.
"The Physical Basis and Origin of Hierarchical Control."
www.academia.edu/863851/Hiera...
The majority don't realize that the reason they are "in charge" is that we, as a group, agree to follow the rules.
"The Physical Basis and Origin of Hierarchical Control."
www.academia.edu/863851/Hiera...
An excerpt from Howard Pattee's "The Physical Basis and Origin of Hierarchical Control."
His work should be required reading for anyone who wants to debate the origins of life, cognition and consciousness, free will vs. determinism, or #complexity in general.
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
His work should be required reading for anyone who wants to debate the origins of life, cognition and consciousness, free will vs. determinism, or #complexity in general.
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
September 4, 2025 at 3:00 PM
An excerpt from Howard Pattee's "The Physical Basis and Origin of Hierarchical Control."
His work should be required reading for anyone who wants to debate the origins of life, cognition and consciousness, free will vs. determinism, or #complexity in general.
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
His work should be required reading for anyone who wants to debate the origins of life, cognition and consciousness, free will vs. determinism, or #complexity in general.
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Google Gemini's key takeaways from:
"Beyond the extended mind: new arguments for extensive enactivism"
by Sganzerla, Hutto & Kirchhoff
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Accurate?
"Beyond the extended mind: new arguments for extensive enactivism"
by Sganzerla, Hutto & Kirchhoff
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Accurate?
August 31, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Google Gemini's key takeaways from:
"Beyond the extended mind: new arguments for extensive enactivism"
by Sganzerla, Hutto & Kirchhoff
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Accurate?
"Beyond the extended mind: new arguments for extensive enactivism"
by Sganzerla, Hutto & Kirchhoff
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Accurate?
This difference between the #physical (operational) and #symbolic (functional) is often overlooked in most contemporary discourses about #life and #mind (e.g. #TAME)
Not *all* life is #teleology.
Ezequiel Di Paolo
Autopoiesis, Adaptivity, Teleology, Agency-2005
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Not *all* life is #teleology.
Ezequiel Di Paolo
Autopoiesis, Adaptivity, Teleology, Agency-2005
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
August 20, 2025 at 3:32 PM
This difference between the #physical (operational) and #symbolic (functional) is often overlooked in most contemporary discourses about #life and #mind (e.g. #TAME)
Not *all* life is #teleology.
Ezequiel Di Paolo
Autopoiesis, Adaptivity, Teleology, Agency-2005
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Not *all* life is #teleology.
Ezequiel Di Paolo
Autopoiesis, Adaptivity, Teleology, Agency-2005
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Matematician Louis Kauffman explains Varela’s work on extending Spencer-Brown's "Laws of Form" in the "Calculus of Self-Reference" and "The Arithmetic of Closure," and why the #circularity in #operational_closure of a #system_whole is necessary for making a #distinction.
metanoia.si/2021/03/28/o...
metanoia.si/2021/03/28/o...
August 19, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Matematician Louis Kauffman explains Varela’s work on extending Spencer-Brown's "Laws of Form" in the "Calculus of Self-Reference" and "The Arithmetic of Closure," and why the #circularity in #operational_closure of a #system_whole is necessary for making a #distinction.
metanoia.si/2021/03/28/o...
metanoia.si/2021/03/28/o...
1993 was also the year when one of the most consequential Systems Engineering Management standards was released:
www.product-lifecycle-management.com/download/mil...
All its subsequent "improvements" and derivatives never came close to the original.
The definition of #system is prominent in my work👇
www.product-lifecycle-management.com/download/mil...
All its subsequent "improvements" and derivatives never came close to the original.
The definition of #system is prominent in my work👇
August 13, 2025 at 3:18 PM
1993 was also the year when one of the most consequential Systems Engineering Management standards was released:
www.product-lifecycle-management.com/download/mil...
All its subsequent "improvements" and derivatives never came close to the original.
The definition of #system is prominent in my work👇
www.product-lifecycle-management.com/download/mil...
All its subsequent "improvements" and derivatives never came close to the original.
The definition of #system is prominent in my work👇
I think Umpleby might be referring to the plethora of "process improvement" methods that started "popping up" in the 90s. Here is a brief history of the SW Engineering Institute's (SEI) Capability Maturity Model (CMM) that Google didn't include in its list below
personal.utdallas.edu/~mcp130030/p...
personal.utdallas.edu/~mcp130030/p...
August 12, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I think Umpleby might be referring to the plethora of "process improvement" methods that started "popping up" in the 90s. Here is a brief history of the SW Engineering Institute's (SEI) Capability Maturity Model (CMM) that Google didn't include in its list below
personal.utdallas.edu/~mcp130030/p...
personal.utdallas.edu/~mcp130030/p...
The third "era" of Cybernetics "to promote the evolution of certain social systems in a preferred direction," as Stuart Umpleby envisions in this article from 1997, seems to have never materialized.
We returned instead to the 70s and the mechanization of the mind
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
We returned instead to the 70s and the mechanization of the mind
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
August 12, 2025 at 12:02 AM
The third "era" of Cybernetics "to promote the evolution of certain social systems in a preferred direction," as Stuart Umpleby envisions in this article from 1997, seems to have never materialized.
We returned instead to the 70s and the mechanization of the mind
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
We returned instead to the 70s and the mechanization of the mind
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Analog "computers" should *not* be able to emulate "Turing machines." At their base, they work with continuous variables in time, not sequences of discrete symbols.
However, the analog brain can do so even if its primary function is #control, not #computation.
From
bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/764...
However, the analog brain can do so even if its primary function is #control, not #computation.
From
bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/764...
August 10, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Analog "computers" should *not* be able to emulate "Turing machines." At their base, they work with continuous variables in time, not sequences of discrete symbols.
However, the analog brain can do so even if its primary function is #control, not #computation.
From
bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/764...
However, the analog brain can do so even if its primary function is #control, not #computation.
From
bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/764...
There is another dimension to this. Learning is primarily #work that is done internally to get some "results," or intrinsic reward, like in computation, the notorious "aha! moments."
It is not something that is necessarily done to get an external (substantial) reward in the form of matter or energy.
It is not something that is necessarily done to get an external (substantial) reward in the form of matter or energy.
August 5, 2025 at 3:42 PM
There is another dimension to this. Learning is primarily #work that is done internally to get some "results," or intrinsic reward, like in computation, the notorious "aha! moments."
It is not something that is necessarily done to get an external (substantial) reward in the form of matter or energy.
It is not something that is necessarily done to get an external (substantial) reward in the form of matter or energy.
Knowledge is the current #state of the learning system. It is akin to biological #growth in that a memory is #constructed and washed out as layered "sediments."
The state affects both the recursive #learning process (information extraction) and the linear #behavior, or answer to external influences.
The state affects both the recursive #learning process (information extraction) and the linear #behavior, or answer to external influences.
August 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Knowledge is the current #state of the learning system. It is akin to biological #growth in that a memory is #constructed and washed out as layered "sediments."
The state affects both the recursive #learning process (information extraction) and the linear #behavior, or answer to external influences.
The state affects both the recursive #learning process (information extraction) and the linear #behavior, or answer to external influences.
Excellent discussion about Glanville's undervalued Theory of Objects #TO, by Luca Fabbris (in Italian)
ojs.unito.it/index.php/ph...
ojs.unito.it/index.php/ph...
August 4, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Excellent discussion about Glanville's undervalued Theory of Objects #TO, by Luca Fabbris (in Italian)
ojs.unito.it/index.php/ph...
ojs.unito.it/index.php/ph...
An introduction Ranulph Glanville gave during the 2013 conference of the American Society for Cybernetics in Bolton, UK, on his *Theory of Objects*, developed first in his 1975 thesis about "a Cybernetic Epistemology of Observation"👇
bura.brunel.ac.uk/bitstream/24...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tACF...
bura.brunel.ac.uk/bitstream/24...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tACF...
August 4, 2025 at 5:17 PM
An introduction Ranulph Glanville gave during the 2013 conference of the American Society for Cybernetics in Bolton, UK, on his *Theory of Objects*, developed first in his 1975 thesis about "a Cybernetic Epistemology of Observation"👇
bura.brunel.ac.uk/bitstream/24...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tACF...
bura.brunel.ac.uk/bitstream/24...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tACF...
Often forgotten today by modern scientists, plucking things out of a "Platonic space."👇
ojs.unito.it/index.php/ph...
ojs.unito.it/index.php/ph...
August 4, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Often forgotten today by modern scientists, plucking things out of a "Platonic space."👇
ojs.unito.it/index.php/ph...
ojs.unito.it/index.php/ph...
Does someone have a good answer to the question Jesper Hoffmeyer asks in:
"Semiotic freedom: an emerging force" printed in
Information and the Nature of Reality (From Physics to Metaphysics)
www.cambridge.org/core/books/i...
"Semiotic freedom: an emerging force" printed in
Information and the Nature of Reality (From Physics to Metaphysics)
www.cambridge.org/core/books/i...
July 23, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Does someone have a good answer to the question Jesper Hoffmeyer asks in:
"Semiotic freedom: an emerging force" printed in
Information and the Nature of Reality (From Physics to Metaphysics)
www.cambridge.org/core/books/i...
"Semiotic freedom: an emerging force" printed in
Information and the Nature of Reality (From Physics to Metaphysics)
www.cambridge.org/core/books/i...
Didn't TW Deacon fix the issue of "retro-causality" by replacing it with "that which is missing" right now?
Deacon's 'entention' is, IMO, the same as #information, a difference between what is observed, #perception, and what's missing (expected) #prediction, defined by the system's #knowledge state:
Deacon's 'entention' is, IMO, the same as #information, a difference between what is observed, #perception, and what's missing (expected) #prediction, defined by the system's #knowledge state:
July 12, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Didn't TW Deacon fix the issue of "retro-causality" by replacing it with "that which is missing" right now?
Deacon's 'entention' is, IMO, the same as #information, a difference between what is observed, #perception, and what's missing (expected) #prediction, defined by the system's #knowledge state:
Deacon's 'entention' is, IMO, the same as #information, a difference between what is observed, #perception, and what's missing (expected) #prediction, defined by the system's #knowledge state:
#Consciousness is overrated.😉
👇
WR Ashby - Design for a Brain - The origin of adaptive behaviour (Chapman & Hall 1960)
👇
WR Ashby - Design for a Brain - The origin of adaptive behaviour (Chapman & Hall 1960)
July 1, 2025 at 8:59 PM
#Consciousness is overrated.😉
👇
WR Ashby - Design for a Brain - The origin of adaptive behaviour (Chapman & Hall 1960)
👇
WR Ashby - Design for a Brain - The origin of adaptive behaviour (Chapman & Hall 1960)
Why is there not more discussion in the cognitive sciences about Aron Gurwitsch’s phenomenological "Field Theory of Consciousness?"
journals.openedition.org/hel/3541?lan...
It was never even mentioned in Robert Lawrence Kuhn's (@closertotruth.bsky.social ) comprehensive "Landscape of Consciousness."
journals.openedition.org/hel/3541?lan...
It was never even mentioned in Robert Lawrence Kuhn's (@closertotruth.bsky.social ) comprehensive "Landscape of Consciousness."
June 22, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Why is there not more discussion in the cognitive sciences about Aron Gurwitsch’s phenomenological "Field Theory of Consciousness?"
journals.openedition.org/hel/3541?lan...
It was never even mentioned in Robert Lawrence Kuhn's (@closertotruth.bsky.social ) comprehensive "Landscape of Consciousness."
journals.openedition.org/hel/3541?lan...
It was never even mentioned in Robert Lawrence Kuhn's (@closertotruth.bsky.social ) comprehensive "Landscape of Consciousness."
My response to the "set of questions that should be considered and addressed by anyone seeking to form or express justified opinions about issues of intelligence" posed by Rouleau & Levin in osf.io/preprints/os...
This was originally posted on the "dark site" 😃 last October. 👇
x.com/Kihbernetics...
This was originally posted on the "dark site" 😃 last October. 👇
x.com/Kihbernetics...
May 28, 2025 at 11:55 PM
My response to the "set of questions that should be considered and addressed by anyone seeking to form or express justified opinions about issues of intelligence" posed by Rouleau & Levin in osf.io/preprints/os...
This was originally posted on the "dark site" 😃 last October. 👇
x.com/Kihbernetics...
This was originally posted on the "dark site" 😃 last October. 👇
x.com/Kihbernetics...
Strictly speaking, the term "synthetic" means something made of artificial material, from scratch. I don't think a naturaly produced carbon-based bacterium with a modified DNA fits the description.
Neural networks and evolutionary algorithms are simulations of life processes
arxiv.org/abs/2505.15849
Neural networks and evolutionary algorithms are simulations of life processes
arxiv.org/abs/2505.15849
May 26, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Strictly speaking, the term "synthetic" means something made of artificial material, from scratch. I don't think a naturaly produced carbon-based bacterium with a modified DNA fits the description.
Neural networks and evolutionary algorithms are simulations of life processes
arxiv.org/abs/2505.15849
Neural networks and evolutionary algorithms are simulations of life processes
arxiv.org/abs/2505.15849
Depends on what you think are the "central principles used in the video."
IMO, life *is* a "self-modifying" (autopoietic) but *is not* a "computational" phase of matter.
Only living matter can evolve and reach a specific living state when it can *perform* computations and build non-living computers.
IMO, life *is* a "self-modifying" (autopoietic) but *is not* a "computational" phase of matter.
Only living matter can evolve and reach a specific living state when it can *perform* computations and build non-living computers.
May 25, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Depends on what you think are the "central principles used in the video."
IMO, life *is* a "self-modifying" (autopoietic) but *is not* a "computational" phase of matter.
Only living matter can evolve and reach a specific living state when it can *perform* computations and build non-living computers.
IMO, life *is* a "self-modifying" (autopoietic) but *is not* a "computational" phase of matter.
Only living matter can evolve and reach a specific living state when it can *perform* computations and build non-living computers.
An interesting extension of Pattee's Epistemic Cut, Complementarity Principle, and Semantic Closure into the science of #Complexity by David Abel and Jack Trevors
Freedom (functional complexity) lies in the middle, between determinism and total randomness.👇
tbiomed.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Freedom (functional complexity) lies in the middle, between determinism and total randomness.👇
tbiomed.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
May 7, 2025 at 3:16 PM
An interesting extension of Pattee's Epistemic Cut, Complementarity Principle, and Semantic Closure into the science of #Complexity by David Abel and Jack Trevors
Freedom (functional complexity) lies in the middle, between determinism and total randomness.👇
tbiomed.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Freedom (functional complexity) lies in the middle, between determinism and total randomness.👇
tbiomed.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....