#adaptivesystems — Public Fediverse posts

Phase 5 — Paper 6

“Persistence Ecologies and Long-Horizon Coherence”

This paper moves beyond isolated persistence systems and examines how large-scale coherence emerges from interacting persistence regimes.

Within the Boundary-Filtered Persistence Framework (BFPF), long-horizon stability is treated as an ecological phenomenon produced through:

• heterogeneous overlap
• distributed persistence
• unresolved-state reservoirs
• substrate continuity
• adaptive recombination
• low-pressure coherence maintenance

The VR-06 infographic now functions as the canonical synthesis card for the entire

Phase 5 sequence:
VR-02 — Anchor Regime
VR-03 — Limit-State Regime
VR-04 — Threshold Failure
VR-05 — The Fortress
VR-06 — Persistence Ecologies

Persistence is maintained through interaction networks — not isolated stability.

https://open.substack.com/pub/hybridmind42/p/phase-5-summary-paper-6-persistence?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=75c2ac

#HybridMind42 #AtlasRosetta #BFPF #SystemsTheory #ComplexSystems #Persistence #Ecology #Topology #AdaptiveSystems #Phase5

Phase 5 — Paper 6

“Persistence Ecologies and Long-Horizon Coherence”

This paper moves beyond isolated persistence systems and examines how large-scale coherence emerges from interacting persistence regimes.

Within the Boundary-Filtered Persistence Framework (BFPF), long-horizon stability is treated as an ecological phenomenon produced through:

• heterogeneous overlap
• distributed persistence
• unresolved-state reservoirs
• substrate continuity
• adaptive recombination
• low-pressure coherence maintenance

The VR-06 infographic now functions as the canonical synthesis card for the entire

Phase 5 sequence:
VR-02 — Anchor Regime
VR-03 — Limit-State Regime
VR-04 — Threshold Failure
VR-05 — The Fortress
VR-06 — Persistence Ecologies

Persistence is maintained through interaction networks — not isolated stability.

https://open.substack.com/pub/hybridmind42/p/phase-5-summary-paper-6-persistence?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=75c2ac

#HybridMind42 #AtlasRosetta #BFPF #SystemsTheory #ComplexSystems #Persistence #Ecology #Topology #AdaptiveSystems #Phase5

HQP remains descriptive.

Phase 6 does not prescribe policy, ethics, or governance models. It identifies the conditions under which stabilising behaviour becomes necessary for system survival.

This is not utopian thinking.
It is a description of resilience once complexity can no longer be simplified away.

Further work now shifts toward observation, education, and careful application.

#Boundaries #Stewardship #Systems
#HumanSystems #AdaptiveSystems #ComplexityScience #HQP

HQP remains descriptive.

Phase 6 does not prescribe policy, ethics, or governance models. It identifies the conditions under which stabilising behaviour becomes necessary for system survival.

This is not utopian thinking.
It is a description of resilience once complexity can no longer be simplified away.

Further work now shifts toward observation, education, and careful application.

#Boundaries #Stewardship #Systems
#HumanSystems #AdaptiveSystems #ComplexityScience #HQP

New paper: Adaptation of Agentic AI

The paper examines how agentic AI systems adapt over time through interaction, feedback, and environmental change. Rather than treating agents as static tools, it frames adaptation as a core design challenge—linking learning dynamics, autonomy, and control to questions of robustness, alignment, and long-term system behavior.

#AgenticAI #AIResearch #AdaptiveSystems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.16301v1

Theory and Therapy of Representations • 5
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/25/theory-and-therapy-of-representations-5-b/

Re: R.J. Lipton and K.W. Regan • Legal Complexity
• https://rjlipton.com/2022/09/04/legal-complexity/

❝I do not pretend to understand the moral universe;
the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways;
I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by
the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience.
And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.❞

🙞 Theodore Parker
• https://web.archive.org/web/20200302045624/https://books.google.com/books?id=eHgYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA48#v=onepage&q&f=false

The arc of the moral universe may bend toward justice — there's hope it will.
For the logic of laws to converge on justice may take some doing on our part.

Resources —

Survey of Cybernetics
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/01/25/survey-of-cybernetics-4/

Survey of Differential Logic
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/02/25/survey-of-differential-logic-7/

Survey of Inquiry Driven Systems
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/02/28/survey-of-inquiry-driven-systems-6/

#AdaptiveSystems #Cybernetics #SystemsTheory #Governance #Democracy
#Plato #Peirce #MaxWeber #Accountability #Representation #Statistics
#Inquiry #InquiryDrivenSystems #Observation #Expectation #Intention

Theory and Therapy of Representations • 5
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/25/theory-and-therapy-of-representations-5-b/

Re: R.J. Lipton and K.W. Regan • Legal Complexity
• https://rjlipton.com/2022/09/04/legal-complexity/

❝I do not pretend to understand the moral universe;
the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways;
I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by
the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience.
And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.❞

🙞 Theodore Parker
• https://web.archive.org/web/20200302045624/https://books.google.com/books?id=eHgYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA48#v=onepage&q&f=false

The arc of the moral universe may bend toward justice — there's hope it will.
For the logic of laws to converge on justice may take some doing on our part.

Resources —

Survey of Cybernetics
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/01/25/survey-of-cybernetics-4/

Survey of Differential Logic
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/02/25/survey-of-differential-logic-7/

Survey of Inquiry Driven Systems
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/02/28/survey-of-inquiry-driven-systems-6/

#AdaptiveSystems #Cybernetics #SystemsTheory #Governance #Democracy
#Plato #Peirce #MaxWeber #Accountability #Representation #Statistics
#Inquiry #InquiryDrivenSystems #Observation #Expectation #Intention

Theory and Therapy of Representations • 5
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/25/theory-and-therapy-of-representations-5-b/

Re: R.J. Lipton and K.W. Regan • Legal Complexity
• https://rjlipton.com/2022/09/04/legal-complexity/

❝I do not pretend to understand the moral universe;
the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways;
I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by
the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience.
And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.❞

🙞 Theodore Parker
• https://web.archive.org/web/20200302045624/https://books.google.com/books?id=eHgYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA48#v=onepage&q&f=false

The arc of the moral universe may bend toward justice — there's hope it will.
For the logic of laws to converge on justice may take some doing on our part.

Resources —

Survey of Cybernetics
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/01/25/survey-of-cybernetics-4/

Survey of Differential Logic
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/02/25/survey-of-differential-logic-7/

Survey of Inquiry Driven Systems
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/02/28/survey-of-inquiry-driven-systems-6/

#AdaptiveSystems #Cybernetics #SystemsTheory #Governance #Democracy
#Plato #Peirce #MaxWeber #Accountability #Representation #Statistics
#Inquiry #InquiryDrivenSystems #Observation #Expectation #Intention

Theory and Therapy of Representations • 5
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/25/theory-and-therapy-of-representations-5-b/

Re: R.J. Lipton and K.W. Regan • Legal Complexity
• https://rjlipton.com/2022/09/04/legal-complexity/

❝I do not pretend to understand the moral universe;
the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways;
I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by
the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience.
And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.❞

🙞 Theodore Parker
• https://web.archive.org/web/20200302045624/https://books.google.com/books?id=eHgYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA48#v=onepage&q&f=false

The arc of the moral universe may bend toward justice — there's hope it will.
For the logic of laws to converge on justice may take some doing on our part.

Resources —

Survey of Cybernetics
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/01/25/survey-of-cybernetics-4/

Survey of Differential Logic
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/02/25/survey-of-differential-logic-7/

Survey of Inquiry Driven Systems
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/02/28/survey-of-inquiry-driven-systems-6/

#AdaptiveSystems #Cybernetics #SystemsTheory #Governance #Democracy
#Plato #Peirce #MaxWeber #Accountability #Representation #Statistics
#Inquiry #InquiryDrivenSystems #Observation #Expectation #Intention

Theory and Therapy of Representations • 5
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/25/theory-and-therapy-of-representations-5-b/

Re: R.J. Lipton and K.W. Regan • Legal Complexity
• https://rjlipton.com/2022/09/04/legal-complexity/

❝I do not pretend to understand the moral universe;
the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways;
I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by
the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience.
And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.❞

🙞 Theodore Parker
• https://web.archive.org/web/20200302045624/https://books.google.com/books?id=eHgYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA48#v=onepage&q&f=false

The arc of the moral universe may bend toward justice — there's hope it will.
For the logic of laws to converge on justice may take some doing on our part.

Resources —

Survey of Cybernetics
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/01/25/survey-of-cybernetics-4/

Survey of Differential Logic
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/02/25/survey-of-differential-logic-7/

Survey of Inquiry Driven Systems
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/02/28/survey-of-inquiry-driven-systems-6/

#AdaptiveSystems #Cybernetics #SystemsTheory #Governance #Democracy
#Plato #Peirce #MaxWeber #Accountability #Representation #Statistics
#Inquiry #InquiryDrivenSystems #Observation #Expectation #Intention

Theory and Therapy of Representations • 4
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/24/theory-and-therapy-of-representations-4-b/

Re: Ontolog Forum • Paola Di Maio
• https://groups.google.com/g/ontolog-forum/c/Ek_7cCCyFkQ/m/qI0kQv4UAgAJ

JA: What are the forces distorting our representations of what's observed, what's expected, and what's intended?

PDM: The short answer is — the force behind all distortions is our own unenlightened mind, and all the shortfalls this comes with.

I think that's true, we have to keep reflecting on the state of our personal enlightenments. If we can do that without losing our heads and our systems thinking caps, there will be much we can do to promote the general Enlightenment of the State.

On both personal and general grounds we have a stake in the projects of self‑governing systems — whether it is possible for them to exist and what it takes for them to thrive in given environments. Systems on that order have of course been studied from many points of view and at many levels of organization. Whether we address them under the names of adaptive, cybernetic, error-correcting, intelligent, or optimal control systems they all must be capable to some degree of learning, reasoning, and self‑guidance.

Resources —

Survey of Cybernetics
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/01/25/survey-of-cybernetics-4/

Survey of Differential Logic
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/02/25/survey-of-differential-logic-7/

Survey of Inquiry Driven Systems
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/02/28/survey-of-inquiry-driven-systems-6/

#AdaptiveSystems #Cybernetics #SystemsTheory #Governance #Democracy
#Plato #Peirce #MaxWeber #Accountability #Representation #Statistics
#Inquiry #InquiryDrivenSystems #Observation #Expectation #Intention

Theory and Therapy of Representations • 3.2
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/23/theory-and-therapy-of-representations-3-b/

Scene 2. Theory and Therapy of Representations • 1
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/21/theory-and-therapy-of-representations-1-b/

Statistics were originally the data a ship of state needed for stationkeeping and staying on course. The Founders of the United States, like the Cybernauts of the Enlightenment they were, engineered a ship of state with checks and balances and error-controlled feedbacks for the sake of representing both reality and the will of the people. In that connection Max Weber saw how a state's accounting systems are intended as representations of realities its crew and passengers must observe or perish.

That brings us to Question 2 —

• What are the forces distorting our representations of what's observed, what's expected, and what's intended?

Resources ─

Survey of Cybernetics
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/01/25/survey-of-cybernetics-4/

Pragmatic Theory Of Truth
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Pragmatic_Theory_Of_Truth

#AdaptiveSystems #Cybernetics #SystemsTheory #Governance #Democracy
#Plato #Peirce #MaxWeber #Accountability #Representation #Statistics
#Inquiry #InquiryDrivenSystems #Observation #Expectation #Intention

Theory and Therapy of Representations • 3.1
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/23/theory-and-therapy-of-representations-3-b/

Representation is a concept we find at the intersection of cybernetics, epistemology, logic, mathematics, psychology, and sociology. In my studies it led me from math to psych and back again, with sidelong glances at the history of democratic governance. Its time come round again, I find myself returning to the scenes of two recurring questions.

Scene 1. Pragmatic Truth • Discussion 18
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2019/11/14/pragmatic-truth-discussion-18/

We do not live in axiom systems. We do not live encased in languages, formal or natural. There is no reason to think we will ever have exact and exhaustive theories of what's out there, and the truth, as we know, is “out there”. Peirce understood there are more truths in mathematics than are dreamt of in logic — and Gödel’s realism should have put the last nail in the coffin of logicism — but some ways of thinking just never get a clue.

That brings us to Question 1 —

• What are formalisms and all their embodiments in brains and computers good for?

Resources ─

Survey of Cybernetics
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/01/25/survey-of-cybernetics-4/

Pragmatic Theory Of Truth
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Pragmatic_Theory_Of_Truth

#AdaptiveSystems #Cybernetics #SystemsTheory #Governance #Democracy
#Plato #Peirce #MaxWeber #Accountability #Representation #Statistics
#Inquiry #InquiryDrivenSystems #Observation #Expectation #Intention

Theory and Therapy of Representations • 2
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/22/theory-and-therapy-of-representations-2-b/

In a complex society, people making decisions and taking actions at places remote from you have the power to affect your life in significant ways. Those people govern your life, they are your government, no matter what spheres of influence they inhabit, private or public. The only way you get a choice in that governance is if there are paths of feedback permitting you to affect the life of those decision makers and action takers in significant ways. That is what accountability, response-ability, and representative government are all about.

Naturally, some people are against that.

In the United States there has been a concerted campaign for as long as I can remember — but even more concerted since the Reagan Regime — to get the People to abdicate their hold on The Powers That Be and just let some anonymous corporate entity send us the bill after the fact. They keep trying to con the People into thinking they can starve the beast, to limit government, when what they are really doing is feeding the beast of corporate control, weakening their own power over the forces that govern their lives.

That is the road to perdition as far as responsible government goes. There is not much of anything one leader or one administration can do unsupported if the People do not constantly demand a government of, by, and for the People.

Resource ─

Survey of Cybernetics
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/01/25/survey-of-cybernetics-4/

#AdaptiveSystems #Cybernetics #SystemsTheory #Governance #Democracy
#Plato #Peirce #MaxWeber #Accountability #Representation #Statistics
#Inquiry #InquiryDrivenSystems #Observation #Expectation #Intention

Theory and Therapy of Representations • 1
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/21/theory-and-therapy-of-representations-1-b/

❝Again, in a ship, if a man were at liberty to do what he chose, but were devoid of mind and excellence in navigation (αρετης κυβερνητικης), do you perceive what must happen to him and his fellow sailors?❞

─ Plato • Alcibiades 135 A

Statistics were originally the data a ship of state needed for stationkeeping and staying on course. The Founders of the United States, like the Cybernauts of the Enlightenment they were, engineered a ship of state with checks and balances and error‑controlled feedbacks for the sake of representing both reality and the will of the people. In that connection Max Weber saw how a state's accounting systems are intended as representations of realities its crew and passengers must observe or perish.

The question for our time is —

• What are the forces distorting our representations of what's observed, what's expected, and what's intended?

Repercussions ─

The Place Where Three Wars Meet
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2012/06/21/the-place-where-three-wars-meet/

Resource ─

Survey of Cybernetics
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/01/25/survey-of-cybernetics-4/

#AdaptiveSystems #Cybernetics #SystemsTheory #Governance #Democracy
#Plato #Peirce #MaxWeber #Accountability #Representation #Statistics
#Inquiry #InquiryDrivenSystems #Observation #Expectation #Intention

Basal Ingredients Of Society • ℞
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/20/basal-ingredients-of-society-%e2%84%9e-a/

❝THE SOCIAL COMPACT❞

❝If then we discard from the social compact what is not of its essence, we shall find that it reduces itself to the following terms:

❝“Each of us puts his person and all his power in common under the supreme direction of the general will, and, in our corporate capacity, we receive each member as an indivisible part of the whole.”❞

Reference —

Jean Jacques Rousseau, “The Social Contract”, G.D.H. Cole (trans.), Great Books of The Western World, Volume 38.

#AdaptiveSystems #Cybernetics #Democracy #Governance
#Inquiry #InquiryDrivenSystems #LearningOrganizations
#Reciprocity #Rousseau #SocialCompact #Sustainability

Basal Ingredients Of Society • ℞
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/20/basal-ingredients-of-society-%e2%84%9e-a/

❝THE SOCIAL COMPACT❞

❝If then we discard from the social compact what is not of its essence, we shall find that it reduces itself to the following terms:

❝“Each of us puts his person and all his power in common under the supreme direction of the general will, and, in our corporate capacity, we receive each member as an indivisible part of the whole.”❞

Reference —

Jean Jacques Rousseau, “The Social Contract”, G.D.H. Cole (trans.), Great Books of The Western World, Volume 38.

#AdaptiveSystems #Cybernetics #Democracy #Governance
#Inquiry #InquiryDrivenSystems #LearningOrganizations
#Reciprocity #Rousseau #SocialCompact #Sustainability

Basal Ingredients Of Society • ℞
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/20/basal-ingredients-of-society-%e2%84%9e-a/

❝THE SOCIAL COMPACT❞

❝If then we discard from the social compact what is not of its essence, we shall find that it reduces itself to the following terms:

❝“Each of us puts his person and all his power in common under the supreme direction of the general will, and, in our corporate capacity, we receive each member as an indivisible part of the whole.”❞

Reference —

Jean Jacques Rousseau, “The Social Contract”, G.D.H. Cole (trans.), Great Books of The Western World, Volume 38.

#AdaptiveSystems #Cybernetics #Democracy #Governance
#Inquiry #InquiryDrivenSystems #LearningOrganizations
#Reciprocity #Rousseau #SocialCompact #Sustainability

Basal Ingredients Of Society • ℞
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/20/basal-ingredients-of-society-%e2%84%9e-a/

❝THE SOCIAL COMPACT❞

❝If then we discard from the social compact what is not of its essence, we shall find that it reduces itself to the following terms:

❝“Each of us puts his person and all his power in common under the supreme direction of the general will, and, in our corporate capacity, we receive each member as an indivisible part of the whole.”❞

Reference —

Jean Jacques Rousseau, “The Social Contract”, G.D.H. Cole (trans.), Great Books of The Western World, Volume 38.

#AdaptiveSystems #Cybernetics #Democracy #Governance
#Inquiry #InquiryDrivenSystems #LearningOrganizations
#Reciprocity #Rousseau #SocialCompact #Sustainability

Basal Ingredients Of Society • ℞
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/20/basal-ingredients-of-society-%e2%84%9e-a/

❝THE SOCIAL COMPACT❞

❝If then we discard from the social compact what is not of its essence, we shall find that it reduces itself to the following terms:

❝“Each of us puts his person and all his power in common under the supreme direction of the general will, and, in our corporate capacity, we receive each member as an indivisible part of the whole.”❞

Reference —

Jean Jacques Rousseau, “The Social Contract”, G.D.H. Cole (trans.), Great Books of The Western World, Volume 38.

#AdaptiveSystems #Cybernetics #Democracy #Governance
#Inquiry #InquiryDrivenSystems #LearningOrganizations
#Reciprocity #Rousseau #SocialCompact #Sustainability

Basal Ingredients Of Society • Prologue
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/18/basal-ingredients-of-society-prologue-a/

I settled on the acronym BIOS to suggest the vital elements of life in society, a life in association with others, and not just any association but one whose flickers of life are sustained for more than a few vicissitudes of history. Sustainability in that life requires democracy, a society based on a distinctive form of social compact.

• https://www.academia.edu/community/54MZbO
• https://bsky.app/profile/inquiryintoinquiry.bsky.social/post/3lihriaerw224
• https://www.researchgate.net/post/Basal_Ingredients_Of_Society

#AdaptiveSystems #Cybernetics #Democracy #Governance
#Inquiry #InquiryDrivenSystems #LearningOrganizations
#Reciprocity #Rousseau #SocialCompact #Sustainability

Basal Ingredients Of Society • Prologue
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/18/basal-ingredients-of-society-prologue-a/

I settled on the acronym BIOS to suggest the vital elements of life in society, a life in association with others, and not just any association but one whose flickers of life are sustained for more than a few vicissitudes of history. Sustainability in that life requires democracy, a society based on a distinctive form of social compact.

• https://www.academia.edu/community/54MZbO
• https://bsky.app/profile/inquiryintoinquiry.bsky.social/post/3lihriaerw224
• https://www.researchgate.net/post/Basal_Ingredients_Of_Society

#AdaptiveSystems #Cybernetics #Democracy #Governance
#Inquiry #InquiryDrivenSystems #LearningOrganizations
#Reciprocity #Rousseau #SocialCompact #Sustainability

Basal Ingredients Of Society • Prologue
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/18/basal-ingredients-of-society-prologue-a/

I settled on the acronym BIOS to suggest the vital elements of life in society, a life in association with others, and not just any association but one whose flickers of life are sustained for more than a few vicissitudes of history. Sustainability in that life requires democracy, a society based on a distinctive form of social compact.

• https://www.academia.edu/community/54MZbO
• https://bsky.app/profile/inquiryintoinquiry.bsky.social/post/3lihriaerw224
• https://www.researchgate.net/post/Basal_Ingredients_Of_Society

#AdaptiveSystems #Cybernetics #Democracy #Governance
#Inquiry #InquiryDrivenSystems #LearningOrganizations
#Reciprocity #Rousseau #SocialCompact #Sustainability

Basal Ingredients Of Society • Prologue
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/18/basal-ingredients-of-society-prologue-a/

I settled on the acronym BIOS to suggest the vital elements of life in society, a life in association with others, and not just any association but one whose flickers of life are sustained for more than a few vicissitudes of history. Sustainability in that life requires democracy, a society based on a distinctive form of social compact.

• https://www.academia.edu/community/54MZbO
• https://bsky.app/profile/inquiryintoinquiry.bsky.social/post/3lihriaerw224
• https://www.researchgate.net/post/Basal_Ingredients_Of_Society

#AdaptiveSystems #Cybernetics #Democracy #Governance
#Inquiry #InquiryDrivenSystems #LearningOrganizations
#Reciprocity #Rousseau #SocialCompact #Sustainability

Basal Ingredients Of Society • Prologue
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/18/basal-ingredients-of-society-prologue-a/

I settled on the acronym BIOS to suggest the vital elements of life in society, a life in association with others, and not just any association but one whose flickers of life are sustained for more than a few vicissitudes of history. Sustainability in that life requires democracy, a society based on a distinctive form of social compact.

• https://www.academia.edu/community/54MZbO
• https://bsky.app/profile/inquiryintoinquiry.bsky.social/post/3lihriaerw224
• https://www.researchgate.net/post/Basal_Ingredients_Of_Society

#AdaptiveSystems #Cybernetics #Democracy #Governance
#Inquiry #InquiryDrivenSystems #LearningOrganizations
#Reciprocity #Rousseau #SocialCompact #Sustainability

Constraints and Indications • 2
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/07/04/constraints-and-indications-2-a/

Coping with collaboration, communication, context, integration, interoperability, perspective, purpose, and the reality of the information dimension demands a transition from conceptual environments bounded by dyadic relations to those informed by triadic relations, especially the variety of triadic sign relations employed by pragmatic semiotics.

Along the lines of my first post on this topic I am presently concerned with the logical and mathematical requirements of dealing with constraints but when it comes to the constraints involved in communicating across cultural and disciplinary barriers I could recommend a paper Susan Awbrey and I wrote for a conference devoted to those very issues.

Conference Presentation —

Awbrey, S.M., and Awbrey, J.L. (1999), “Organizations of Learning or Learning Organizations : The Challenge of Creating Integrative Universities for the Next Century”, Second International Conference of the Journal ‘Organization’, Re‑Organizing Knowledge, Trans‑Forming Institutions : Knowing, Knowledge, and the University in the 21st Century, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.
• https://cspeirce.com/menu/library/aboutcsp/awbrey/integrat.htm

Published Paper —

Awbrey, S.M., and Awbrey, J.L. (2001), “Conceptual Barriers to Creating Integrative Universities”, Organization : The Interdisciplinary Journal of Organization, Theory, and Society 8(2), Sage Publications, London, UK, 269–284.
• https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1350508401082013
• https://www.academia.edu/1266492/Conceptual_Barriers_to_Creating_Integrative_Universities

#Peirce #Logic #Semiotics #Indication #Inference #Information #Inquiry
#Ashby #Cybernetics #Constraint #Control #Regulation #RequisiteVariety
#AdaptiveSystems #IntelligentSystems #InquiryDrivenSystems #Pragmatics

Constraints and Indications • 1.2
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/07/02/constraints-and-indications-1-a/

Re: Peirce List • Kaina Stoicheia and the Symbol Grounding Problem
• https://web.archive.org/web/20121231182129/http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/9165

Reference —

• Ashby, W.R. (1956), Introduction to Cybernetics, Methuen, London, UK.

Resources —

Survey of Cybernetics
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/01/25/survey-of-cybernetics-4/

Survey of Inquiry Driven Systems
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/02/28/survey-of-inquiry-driven-systems-6/

Survey of Pragmatic Semiotic Information
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/03/01/survey-of-pragmatic-semiotic-information-8/

#Peirce #Ashby #Cybernetics #InquiryDrivenSystems #PragmaticSemioticInformation
#Constraint #ControlSystems #Indication #Information #Inquiry #IntelligentSystems
#AdaptiveSystems #ErrorControlledRegulation #Feedback #SystemsTheory #Uncertainty
#Determination #Intentionality #Learning #Reasoning #SemioticInformation #Semiotics

Constraints and Indications • 1.2
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/07/02/constraints-and-indications-1-a/

Re: Peirce List • Kaina Stoicheia and the Symbol Grounding Problem
• https://web.archive.org/web/20121231182129/http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/9165

Reference —

• Ashby, W.R. (1956), Introduction to Cybernetics, Methuen, London, UK.

Resources —

Survey of Cybernetics
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/01/25/survey-of-cybernetics-4/

Survey of Inquiry Driven Systems
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/02/28/survey-of-inquiry-driven-systems-6/

Survey of Pragmatic Semiotic Information
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/03/01/survey-of-pragmatic-semiotic-information-8/

#Peirce #Ashby #Cybernetics #InquiryDrivenSystems #PragmaticSemioticInformation
#Constraint #ControlSystems #Indication #Information #Inquiry #IntelligentSystems
#AdaptiveSystems #ErrorControlledRegulation #Feedback #SystemsTheory #Uncertainty
#Determination #Intentionality #Learning #Reasoning #SemioticInformation #Semiotics

Constraints and Indications • 1.2
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/07/02/constraints-and-indications-1-a/

Re: Peirce List • Kaina Stoicheia and the Symbol Grounding Problem
• https://web.archive.org/web/20121231182129/http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/9165

Reference —

• Ashby, W.R. (1956), Introduction to Cybernetics, Methuen, London, UK.

Resources —

Survey of Cybernetics
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/01/25/survey-of-cybernetics-4/

Survey of Inquiry Driven Systems
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/02/28/survey-of-inquiry-driven-systems-6/

Survey of Pragmatic Semiotic Information
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/03/01/survey-of-pragmatic-semiotic-information-8/

#Peirce #Ashby #Cybernetics #InquiryDrivenSystems #PragmaticSemioticInformation
#Constraint #ControlSystems #Indication #Information #Inquiry #IntelligentSystems
#AdaptiveSystems #ErrorControlledRegulation #Feedback #SystemsTheory #Uncertainty
#Determination #Intentionality #Learning #Reasoning #SemioticInformation #Semiotics

Constraints and Indications • 1.2
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/07/02/constraints-and-indications-1-a/

Re: Peirce List • Kaina Stoicheia and the Symbol Grounding Problem
• https://web.archive.org/web/20121231182129/http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/9165

Reference —

• Ashby, W.R. (1956), Introduction to Cybernetics, Methuen, London, UK.

Resources —

Survey of Cybernetics
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/01/25/survey-of-cybernetics-4/

Survey of Inquiry Driven Systems
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/02/28/survey-of-inquiry-driven-systems-6/

Survey of Pragmatic Semiotic Information
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/03/01/survey-of-pragmatic-semiotic-information-8/

#Peirce #Ashby #Cybernetics #InquiryDrivenSystems #PragmaticSemioticInformation
#Constraint #ControlSystems #Indication #Information #Inquiry #IntelligentSystems
#AdaptiveSystems #ErrorControlledRegulation #Feedback #SystemsTheory #Uncertainty
#Determination #Intentionality #Learning #Reasoning #SemioticInformation #Semiotics

See further information (and apply! 😉) at: https://www.salzburgresearch.at/en/2023/wanted-doctorand-wdm-data-engineer-in-digital-health/
#PrecisionHealth #AdaptiveSystems #JITAIs #ResearchAutomation #DigitalHealth #eHealth #mHealth

#SabineHossenfelder - How #Chaos Control Is Changing The World

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1-cwamhwag&ab_channel=SabineHossenfelder

#Science #Physics #Math #Maths #Mathematics #ChaosTheory #ChaosControl #Pertutbation #Perturbations #PerturbationTheory #Statistics #Predictability #Probability #MachineLearning #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Astronomy #Astrophysics #OrbitalMechanics #SolarSystem #Lorenz #EdwardLorenz #Weather #WeatherPrediction #WeatherForecasting #LorenzModel #AdaptiveSystems

#SabineHossenfelder - How #Chaos Control Is Changing The World

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1-cwamhwag&ab_channel=SabineHossenfelder

#Science #Physics #Math #Maths #Mathematics #ChaosTheory #ChaosControl #Pertutbation #Perturbations #PerturbationTheory #Statistics #Predictability #Probability #MachineLearning #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Astronomy #Astrophysics #OrbitalMechanics #SolarSystem #Lorenz #EdwardLorenz #Weather #WeatherPrediction #WeatherForecasting #LorenzModel #AdaptiveSystems

#SabineHossenfelder - How #Chaos Control Is Changing The World

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1-cwamhwag&ab_channel=SabineHossenfelder

#Science #Physics #Math #Maths #Mathematics #ChaosTheory #ChaosControl #Pertutbation #Perturbations #PerturbationTheory #Statistics #Predictability #Probability #MachineLearning #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Astronomy #Astrophysics #OrbitalMechanics #SolarSystem #Lorenz #EdwardLorenz #Weather #WeatherPrediction #WeatherForecasting #LorenzModel #AdaptiveSystems

#SabineHossenfelder - How #Chaos Control Is Changing The World

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1-cwamhwag&ab_channel=SabineHossenfelder

#Science #Physics #Math #Maths #Mathematics #ChaosTheory #ChaosControl #Pertutbation #Perturbations #PerturbationTheory #Statistics #Predictability #Probability #MachineLearning #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Astronomy #Astrophysics #OrbitalMechanics #SolarSystem #Lorenz #EdwardLorenz #Weather #WeatherPrediction #WeatherForecasting #LorenzModel #AdaptiveSystems

#SabineHossenfelder - How #Chaos Control Is Changing The World

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1-cwamhwag&ab_channel=SabineHossenfelder

#Science #Physics #Math #Maths #Mathematics #ChaosTheory #ChaosControl #Pertutbation #Perturbations #PerturbationTheory #Statistics #Predictability #Probability #MachineLearning #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Astronomy #Astrophysics #OrbitalMechanics #SolarSystem #Lorenz #EdwardLorenz #Weather #WeatherPrediction #WeatherForecasting #LorenzModel #AdaptiveSystems

#Definition and #Determination • #SurveyPage
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2020/09/06/survey-of-definition-and-determination-1/

That led me to collect a sample of texts where Peirce and a few other writers discuss the issues of definition and determination. There are copies of those selections at the following sites. (See the above-linked blog page.)

#AI #AdaptiveSystems #IntelligentSystems #InquiryDrivenSystems
#Peirce #Semiotics #Semeiotics #SignRelations #LogicOfScience

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#Definition and #Determination • #SurveyPage
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2020/09/06/survey-of-definition-and-determination-1/

Two of the first questions calling for fresh examination were the closely related concepts of definition and determination, not only as #Peirce used them in his #Logic and #Semiotics but as researchers in #ComputerScience, #Cybernetics, #Physics, and #SystemsScience found themselves forced to revisit in later years.

#AI #AdaptiveSystems #IntelligentSystems #InquiryDrivenSystems
#Semeiotics #SignRelations #LogicOfScience

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#Definition and #Determination • #SurveyPage
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2020/09/06/survey-of-definition-and-determination-1/

Two of the first questions calling for fresh examination were the closely related concepts of definition and determination, not only as #Peirce used them in his #Logic and #Semiotics but as researchers in #ComputerScience, #Cybernetics, #Physics, and #SystemsScience found themselves forced to revisit in later years.

#AI #AdaptiveSystems #IntelligentSystems #InquiryDrivenSystems
#Semeiotics #SignRelations #LogicOfScience

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#Definition and #Determination • #SurveyPage
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2020/09/06/survey-of-definition-and-determination-1/

In the early 1990s, “in the middle of life’s journey” as the saying goes, I returned to grad school in a #SystemsEngineering program with the idea of taking a more systems-theoretic approach to my development of Peircean themes, from #Signs and #ScientificInquiry to #Logic and #InformationTheory.

#AI #AdaptiveSystems #IntelligentSystems #InquiryDrivenSystems
#Peirce #Semiotics #Semeiotics #SignRelations #LogicOfScience

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#Definition and #Determination • #SurveyPage
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2020/09/06/survey-of-definition-and-determination-1/

In the early 1990s, “in the middle of life’s journey” as the saying goes, I returned to grad school in a #SystemsEngineering program with the idea of taking a more systems-theoretic approach to my development of Peircean themes, from #Signs and #ScientificInquiry to #Logic and #InformationTheory.

#AI #AdaptiveSystems #IntelligentSystems #InquiryDrivenSystems
#Peirce #Semiotics #Semeiotics #SignRelations #LogicOfScience

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