Danko, List, I have a half hour to spare but not much battery so let me just try to air a few issues that have been concerning me all through our many discussions of "special-science-inspired" models of inquiry, whether one's favorite special science be physics, chemistry, biology, psychology, sociology, or whatever.
Less time and less charge than I thought. Will have to continue later … Jon http://inquiryintoinquiry.com On Mar 28, 2015, at 3:16 PM, Danko Nikolic <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Jon, > Yes, it is very useful for me as a beginner. Thank you. The text clarified > a few things for me. Also, it makes me more confident that poetic hierarchy > that I propose can account for reasoning (deductive, inductive and > abductive). That is, I think I may have a structure of (cybernetic) machinery > that can perform all these kinds of reasoning. > > However, I am not confident until other experts, such as yourself, concur > to my assertion. Hence, I hope that someone will read the paper on > practopoiesis one day and give me more detailed feedback on where I am in > respect to Peirce, and where one can go further. > > The prospect of having grasped the essence of the machinery that enables > humanlike thought makes me thrilled. However, without having some agreement > from the side of peers, I will continue worrying that my conclusions are > tainted by an unhealthy dose of wishful thinking. > > I attached a table showing how different architectures of cybernetic (or > practopoietic) machinery offer different adaptive capabilities, which are > then paralleled by different capabilities to support ever advancing types of > reasoning. > > I need to know how much sense this whole thing makes to experts in Peirce's > work. > > Thank you very much. > > Danko > >> On 27 Mar 2015 23:20, "Jon Awbrey" <[email protected]> wrote: >> Danko, List, >> >> Here is a section from one of my early drafts on Inquiry Driven Systems that >> may add some ideas to the recent discussion. >> >> http://intersci.ss.uci.edu/wiki/index.php/Introduction_to_Inquiry_Driven_Systems#The_Pragmatic_Approach_to_Inquiry >> >> Regards, >> >> Jon >> >> http://inquiryintoinquiry.com >>
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