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I managed to find your mail in my junk folder. I should think about your statements. Thank you! I hope others will make comments soon.</div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, November 7, 2024 5:02 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> fis@listas.unizar.es <fis@listas.unizar.es><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Fis] Fis Digest, Vol 116, Issue 8</font>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Avenir Next",sans-serif">Hi Peter,</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Avenir Next",sans-serif">I’ve only been able to pop in occasionally, but I find your thoughts on feedback to be highly relevant to many of the big open questions. Not only “information” but
agency, cognition, creativity and the structure of “identity” itself (something that our best hard science theory does not address.)</span></p>
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At the beginning of the year, I led a discussion herein where I suggested that the
<i>emotional system</i> was central to our “self-regulatory” hardware (genetic, epigenetic and immune regulation). In this view, binary feelings (pleasurable or painful, eustress or distress) serve as cybernetic feedback signals – informative software - that
originate in the non-equilibrium dynamics of complex adaptive systems (those that must constantly exchange energy and resources with their local environment in order to exist). I cited a four step cybernetic control loop instantiated by a coupling between
bottom up positive (amplifying) feedback and top-down negative (homeostatic) feedback that works like this: 1) An ongoing
<i>comparison</i> is made between internal and external environments; 2) A <i>signal</i> is sent when self-relevant mismatches occur; which 3) triggers a coupled
<i>self-correcting response</i>, which is then 4) <i>fed back</i> as a memory into the next cycle “comparison”. (AI uses a similar arrangement for deep neural learning networks, by comparing two probability distributions that compare internal requirements
and external circumstances, modelling mismatches as free energy – “surprises” to the system - wherein learning occurs the via the goal of reducing free energy.)</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Avenir Next",sans-serif">But as living systems, we have direct experience of a binary feedback signal as emotional sensory qualia – self-regulatory surprises that come in feel-good or feel-bad
categories and are coupled to approach or avoidant self-correcting behavioral responses. I call these binary qualia the
<i>fundamental semantic information bit, </i>for their binary categories drive each step in the loop and set the stage for all Pavlovian learning.<br>
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This loop, and its subjective binary hedonic driver, is central to the operational, organizational and informational closure of complex self-organizing and autopoietic systems, and it is central to the ongoing construction of the enactive “mind”. It enables
an identity structure that behaves as a dance of both parts and wholes, an autonomous yet collective agent, both determined yet with minor participation, in ways that mediate both being and becoming. And so much more…<br>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Avenir Next",sans-serif">Sorry for the quick core dump, but I thought I’d pop in to applaud Peter’s inquiry and say hi to you all!</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Avenir Next",sans-serif">Katherine Kauffman</span></p>
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1. Re: Fwd: Re: New Discussion Session--Complexity & feedback<br>
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From: Peter Erdi <Peter.Erdi@kzoo.edu><br>
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Thank you, Pedro, for your thoughtful post. I hope some people will react, and we will kick the ball towards some goal. Alternatively, the discussion might evolve by random mutations.<br>
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By the way, Gordana and Sheri: more thoughts about the relationship between cybernetics and complex systems theory with evolution?<br>
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