On 03/04/15 00:59, Clark Goble wrote:
Because abduction is tied so much to a virtue ethics which the
obtaining of habits through inquiry, attempting to explain it by a
formalism like Bayesianism or probably even neural nets or any other
computational scheme is doomed to failure.
This is exactly that problem I think practopoiesis should be solving. It
allows us to go beyond Bayes and explain by an adaptive approach (as
opposed to a computational approach) how an agent should be organized in
order to be capable of obtaining habits through inquiry.
That is probably the key contribution that I wanted to offer and discuss
-- organization of biological "machinery" for abduction.
In short, practopoiesis first proposes a set of rule by which all
adaptive systems organize. Next, the theory proposes that a biological
individual adapts at three levels (tri-traverses), and this adds into
the theoretization of the mind one more adaptive level than what has
been considered until now by brain and mind theorists. Finally, this
tri-traversal theory is argued to provide abduction capabilities
(including obtaining habits through inquiry).
Danko
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