Trying to simulate autopoiesis in an emergent manner, with a simple scaling rule and with each unit having binary state attribution and a corresponding gate (AND, OR, XOR) associated to it.

RT @FibraDomingos: Very interesting paper "Wittgenstein versus Turing on the Nature of Church's Thesis"(. https://t….

RT @FibraDomingos: How would you build a system that given an arbitrary input, would (re)build its sensors and effectors if need be, from m….

RT @FibraDomingos: Any literature on syntactic and semantic adaptivity relative to the symbol grounding problem, which actually considers t….

The so much that one gets, is that properties of interest such as good generalization capabilities, open-endedness, etc, will only be simulated, not realized, despite our increasing difficulties in differentiating between said categories.

Furthermore, it should keep the ability to keep on (re)building its sensors and effectors (semantic adaptivity) if the need arises. You can only get so much by being syntactically open-ended, but semantically closed.

transform them and assemble them in an appropriate manner into respective sensors, effectors, and remaining hardware. And if it's to maintain maximal separability between hardware and software, throughout this process, it should maintain coherent software.

A semantically (and syntactically) adaptive system would need to re-construct its sensors and effectors, and to the extent that such system is deemed to be an agent, it should go on to collect materials and energy from its environment, and on top of it,.

either by encoding a larger set of syntactic relations or by enlarging the capacity to derive such set of syntactic relations.

Any literature on syntactic and semantic adaptivity relative to the symbol grounding problem, which actually considers this as a construction problem? Even in embedded robotics, it largely seems that symbol grounding is "solved" (it is of course rather explained away).

Very interesting paper "Wittgenstein versus Turing on the Nature of Church's Thesis"(.

Rosen's foreword in Savageau's "Biochemical systems analysis: a study of function and design in molecular biology".

Why are there systems in Nature which can literally build themselves!?.

In Joseph Woodger's "The Technique of Theory Construction" (1939). (

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RT @WiringTheBrain: I’m enjoying Robert Rosen’s “Life Itself” (1991) so far - especially for observations like this:

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