Re: Re: Re: Re: The objective world of autopoesis

2012-10-20 Thread Roger Clough
...@verizon.net 10/20/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Terren Suydam Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-10-19, 13:37:23 Subject: Re: Re: Re: The objective world of autopoesis Hi Roger, I'm not sure

Re: Re: Re: The objective world of autopoesis

2012-10-19 Thread Roger Clough
the following content - From: Terren Suydam Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-10-18, 15:28:22 Subject: Re: Re: The objective world of autopoesis Hi Roger, A quale as I understand it is simply a unit of subjective experience. It's a bit of an abstraction since experience does not reduce

Re: Re: The objective world of autopoesis

2012-10-18 Thread Roger Clough
claims about consciousness. ROGER: That is the main thrust of the discussion here. In my view, there is the subjective experience (which I am trying to understand), and then there is the description of that experience, I think we call 3p, which I think is what most people (and autopoesis

Re: Re: The objective world of autopoesis

2012-10-18 Thread Terren Suydam
: That is the main thrust of the discussion here. In my view, there is the subjective experience (which I am trying to understand), and then there is the description of that experience, I think we call 3p, which I think is what most people (and autopoesis (?)) use. I know there are loose ends in my thought

The objective world of autopoesis

2012-10-17 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Terren Suydam IMHO autopoesis, like all of AI, is a tool for the public, objective world (Thirdness) That is fine, but the real nitty-gritty (such as mind or consciousness) dwells in subjective experiences (quale) (Firstness). So I don't find autopoesis that useful

Re: autopoesis

2012-10-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
... interesting stuff. Terren On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: Whilst I agree with Terren that autopoesis is an important part of what it is to be alive, it is not a very practical thing to measure. I wouldn't know if my artificial life simulations

Re: autopoesis

2012-10-17 Thread Terren Suydam
... interesting stuff. Terren On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: Whilst I agree with Terren that autopoesis is an important part of what it is to be alive, it is not a very practical thing to measure. I wouldn't know if my artificial life simulations were

Re: The objective world of autopoesis

2012-10-17 Thread Terren Suydam
those 3p structures can yield testable claims about consciousness. Terren On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 8:25 AM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote: Hi Terren Suydam IMHO autopoesis, like all of AI, is a tool for the public, objective world (Thirdness) That is fine, but the real nitty

Re: The objective world of autopoesis

2012-10-17 Thread Roberto
Hello people, right spelling is autopoiesis and to better understanding I recommend reading Autopoiesis and Cognition and The Tree of Knowledge from Maturana et Varela. Roberto Szabó Em 17/10/2012, às 09:25, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net escreveu: Hi Terren Suydam IMHO autopoesis

Re: Re: Re: autopoesis

2012-10-16 Thread Terren Suydam
until well after its conception. Thanks for the link to Barry McMullin... interesting stuff. Terren On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: Whilst I agree with Terren that autopoesis is an important part of what it is to be alive, it is not a very practical

Re: Re: autopoesis

2012-10-15 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Platonist Guitar Cowboy I agree. I was wrong about autopoesis. It is a mind-boggling definition of life, maybe not even that. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/15/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From

Re: Re: autopoesis

2012-10-15 Thread Terren Suydam
autonomy. Best, Terren On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote: Hi Platonist Guitar Cowboy I agree. I was wrong about autopoesis. It is a mind-boggling definition of life, maybe not even that. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/15/2012 Forever

Re: Re: Re: autopoesis

2012-10-15 Thread Roger Clough
, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Terren Suydam Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-10-15, 11:23:43 Subject: Re: Re: autopoesis Hi Roger, I'm interested in the thought process that led you to reject autopoeisis. I was intrigued by your

Re: Re: Re: autopoesis

2012-10-15 Thread Russell Standish
Whilst I agree with Terren that autopoesis is an important part of what it is to be alive, it is not a very practical thing to measure. I wouldn't know if my artificial life simulations were autopoetic or not, except where the concept has been explicitly designed in (eg see Barry McMullin's

autopoesis

2012-10-14 Thread Roger Clough
Autopoesis is a useful definition for life. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopoiesis Autopoiesis (from Greek a?to- (auto-), meaning self, and p???s?? (poiesis), meaning creation, production) literally means self-creation and expresses a fundamental dialectic among structure, mechanism

Re: autopoesis

2012-10-14 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
Hi Roger, On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote: Autopoesis is a useful definition for life. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopoiesis Autopoiesis (from Greek a?to- (auto-), meaning self, and p???s?? (poiesis), meaning creation, production) literally