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I’m following Rosen (What is Life?). He presents a model consisting of a natural system (N) with causal relationships. A coding process derives what he calls a “formal system”( F) with inferential relationships, based on the pattern derived (“perceived”) from the causal relationships.
The F doesn’t have to be “true”, just good enough. Like a bad map is better then no map. Also, in the process, the F behaves like an anticipating system, it’s “prepared” for future behaviour of “N”.
Shannon has proved that, given enough time, any coding system becomes an error correcting system. The coding system “expects” certain errors and corrects them.
The formal system decodes itself into the natural system. Now, different F’s (G, H, …) can (de)code the same N and F, G, H, … can be (de)coded into each other.
One can extend this model by formal systems consisting of formal system (de)coding each other using internal coding system (I call it L, as in Lichaam, the Dutch word for body). This L contains anticipatory systems. The I like to call “O” from organs. All organs – guts (G), hearth/lung (HL) , nervous system (N), hormone systems, brains (M), Immune (I) ,… behave as-if they’re expecting future events.
Any biological system work “organically”. The word “organ” has been derived from the Greek “erg”, their word for “work”. What work, works. In Dutch and German, the word for reality is Werkelijkheid, Wirklichkeit. Reality is “what works”.
So constructing stable correlations with “the world” (mental models) and thereby creating “realities” who feel and look “objective” is natural. “T he whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind” wrote Emerson. And the (human) mind is a metaphor of nature.
The (de)coding consists of interacting, exchanging, carrying over, literally “metaphors”.
Like the proverbial map, the structure of the F’s (maps) account for there usefulness. This structure is like a +: down – up and backwards- forwards, two dimensions. The real problem is that language is only one dimensional, “rules”. We’re unable to code reality into language. This is also why the so called “AI” will never become intelligent in behaviour. It only produces “sentences”.
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