Dear Steven,
On 27/03/15 05:19, Steven Ericsson-Zenith wrote:
Let's say you do, in fact, have a theory of mind. How does your theory
move from apprehension to action?
Aha! Nice that you ask, because this taps into the very fundamental
nature of practopoiesis -- and maybe to the most important conceptual
contribution of practopoiesis. This issue has been tackled in the
manuscript in considerable detail, although I do not use the term
apprehension but rather understanding, perception, decision, awareness
about the situation, activation of concepts, etc.
The process of apprehension is the very process of practo-poiesis, which
means "creation of actions". To apprehend means to create new
monitor-and-act units for executing actions at a higher level of
organization. In other words, to apprehend is to create new cybernetic
capabilities at one specific level of organization (called top-1).
That way, one does not really have to "move" from apprehension to
action. One is already there by the very act of apprehending.
This is exactly why I was saying that practopoiesis deals with actions
only and leaves representations implicit. When you think in terms of
representations, then you have a problem of how to move from
apprehension (which then becomes a form of a representation) into an
action (which cannot not really be treated satisfactorily as a
representation).
But if you subscribe to the philosophy of practopoiesis, this problem
disappears as you only deal with the cybernetic capabilities of systems
to act. Apprehension is not seen as producing a new representation but
as directly producing a new action system.
More precisely, apprehension in tri-traversal agents is when action
mechanisms at one level of organization (called ideatheca) by their
operations create another set of action mechanisms at one-step higher
level of organization (called top-1).
I hope this is clear enough.
Best,
Danko
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