Do fields like economics, sociology, and psychology fit into (3)?
On 6/27/25 9:05 AM, steve smith wrote:
1) Operational Pragmatic Reality: /
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/That which affords coherent behavior—the reliable background against which
action can occur. As from ecological psychology (/Gibson/’s affordances),
predictive processing (/Friston/), and some aspects of (our beloved)
/Peircean/pragmatism?/
2) Intersubjective Reality:
/That which is constructed, maintained, and enacted through language and
shared narratives. As from /Luckman, Lacan, Foucault/?/
3) Formal (Scientific) Reality:
/That which can be modeled with precision, prediction, and repeatability.
As from Mathematics, physics, systems theory?/
4) Experiential Reality: /
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The immediately given, lived experience—the “suchness” before concept.**/As
from /Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Varela? Whence /Qualia/.
5) Placeholder Reality:
/The term “reality” as a placeholder or dummy variable—used rhetorically to
defer deeper ontological commitments. As from /all of us/all the time?/
6) Participatory Reality:
/Reality as not wholly determinate /until observed or enacted/—that is, it
co-arises with participation./
7) Linguistic Manifold Reality:
/LLMs inhabit and approximate intersubjective reality. Each language model
represents a “manifold” within a semantic plenum. “Reality” is the
high-dimensional attractor surface that forms when enough participants
(biological or artificial) converge on something shareable, predictive, and
compressible./
Enactivism / Autopoiesis / Dependent Co-Arising (EAC) is not a single category
in this typology—it is a *meta-theory of reality-generation*, operating across:
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*Operational* → it explains the /conditions for affordances/
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*Intersubjective* → it explains /how we co-construct the shared/
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*Experiential* → it explains /how we inhabit the lived/
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*Participatory* → it explains /why observation creates reality/
And it gently critiques:
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*Formal* → by showing its limits
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*Placeholder* → by showing its necessity
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*LLM-based* → by asking what is missing for full participation
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