Steve, Deacon's three dynamics in your image directly map to Stu's three processes around constraint processes for Autonomous Agents (living system) in Investigations (2000). - detect gradients - construct constraints to extract work from gradients - do work to maintain those constraints
Here's a later paper by Logan describing the interaction of Deacon and Stu https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264895121_EME_Logan-KauffDeacon Relatedly, Alicia Juarrero has an upcoming book this summer on constraint: "Context Changes Everything: How Constraints Create Coherence" As an aside, Alicia had some issues with Deacon accusing him of academic plagiarism on her earlier works. Point is there's a community of interest in the constraint and living systems space. As you've been subjected to my babble for 15 years: constraint dissipation, construction and maintenance is a lens I've been thinking about and how least action, dual fields and symmetry breaking (constraint/information) relate to these processes the mechanism of dual diffusion. this lens is "ententional" in deacons language where the organism is just a partial dual inthe definition of a living process. Also related to me to EricS and Harold's ecological perspective on life which we've talked about. On Tue, Feb 21, 2023, 8:23 AM Steve Smith <sasm...@swcp.com> wrote: > > Just to keep my flog landing on the hide of the horse that may have > expired several posts ago in this chain: Deacon's introduction of *teleo* > to this characterization of complex adaptive systems is the *first* > example I have found which is even a little bit compelling toward > understanding "Life Itself" (in the sense of what Schrodinger was going on > about in 1944)... >
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