Glen wrote:
1) Rosen: loopiness/closure,
[..]
(1) has to do with higher order operations. A variable takes on meaning when
(partially) convolved into an anticipatory agent ... some process that
expects/anticipates the future.
I'm not sure if this is what you are getting at, but would the following
scenario also be an instance of this: An organization has a set of goals and
let's say they are underspecified or the goals compete with one another. Now,
whenever someone is upset about whatever they might be upset about (or sees
some opportunity to schmooze to their superiors), they make an appeal, and, in
some circumstances, their superiors make reference to the policies to bring
order. In doing so, they produce something of the form of an inverse
problem. "You all should see this is in an instance of a class of policy X."
Let's just say, for the sake of argument, that is not at all clear or is
debatable. Where does that leave the reader? One probably does not question
the superior court, as it were, because it is stated as fact. Instead I think
what happens is that the underlings search for generating functions to fit the
set of constraints and then socialize the solutions to reduce future r
isk. That is, they seek (effective) unification that is deterministic. 1
answer, not 0, not more than 1. But it isn't unification in the logic
programming sense, it just looks that way.
This sort of system leads to each agent making a sort of master equation of the
environment and using it to predict risk (and reward) from above. Meaning
does not exist until the underlings scurry around filling in the free variables
with a self-consistent (and consensus) set of values. I would claim that in
the real world there is usually no shared typing system except in exceptional
cases like the U.S. Judicial system. Mostly it is just the evolution of
anticipatory behaviors from high or low fitness. Mommy and the kids just try
to keep Daddy the tyrant from losing his cool, and in doing so evolve an
effective control system.
Marcus
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