[Fis] Comments on Questions from Katherine Peil

[Alex Hankey]

Dear Lou,
Thank you so much
for these comments,
Alex



On Sun, 12 May 2024 at 13:12, Louis Kauffman <loukau at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Alex,
> I agree with you. It is possible to design structures supported by digital
> systems that have their structure maintained by response to perturbations.
> There are very elementary cellular automata that are like that.
> Then we might have things like large language models that simulate
> biological systems with instability correction that verges on “experience”
> and “emotions”.
> Such systems could report on their own internal states, as we do. But
> present systems are not founded in this way.
> Best,
> Lou
>
> On May 12, 2024, at 2:03 AM, Alex Hankey <alexhankey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> RE:
> 1. My take on the self-regulatory function emotion suggests that the dual
>  “purposes” of self-preservation and adaptive self-development (both
> mediated by Negative ~ Positive categories of emotions) are rooted in *ancient
> information signaling and memory systems*.
> 2. Is any subjectivity involved in information processing? At what point
> is it purely mechanical?
> 3. And once again, where does the *semantic value* enter the picture?
> Not-self pathogens? Too hot, too cold?
>
> None of these questions are dealt with in terms of digital information in
> organisms of any kind. Organisms treat them in terms of 'Experience
> Information', which is entirely different, being based on naturally
> occurring Instabilities in organism response systems, which cannot support
> Digital Information (for obvious reasons), and which are present to enable
> the organism to satisfy the requirements of Fractal Physiology.
>
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Alex Hankey M.A. (Cantab.) PhD (M.I.T.) DSc. (Hon Causa) Professor Emeritus
of Biology,
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