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  1. Can a machine have an inner life? SHOP-D is a testable digital architecture probing self-production, historical self-registration & closure. External-maintenance load, protocols and falsification tests. #AI #autopoiesis #xenorganic #HDD #HDO

    doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23125361

  2. Dream of the Endless finally grants his son Orpheus the death he's asked for across centuries. He returns and weeps, for the first time in his long existence.

    New piece for Materia: Nietzsche's fiction of the subject and the biology of self-producing cells sit beside the myth. Three rooms with no door between them, one structure.

    Free to read, no membership needed:
    medium.com/materia-philosophy-

    #Consciousness #Philosophy #Mythology #Sandman #Nietzsche #Autopoiesis #PhilosophyOfMind #Materia

  3. Im heutigen letzten Newsletter vor der Sommerpause ging's um Geschichten, die in Organisationen ständig erzählt werden, denn keine Konferenz ist so spannend wie das Gespräch in der Kantine 😉

    Und...
    👉 ...welche Geschichten erzählt sich deine Organisation über sich?
    👉 ...wie konstruiert sie darüber Wirklichkeit?

    Organisationen erhalten sich (auch) durch ihre Geschichten selbst. Das ist eine Form der #Autopoiesis ...
    _________
    Mehr solcher Gedanken gibt's im Newsletter 👇

    ideequadrat.org/newsletter/

  4. #Weird #FunFact of the Week:

    The #postgres VACUUM process has been meeting #Schrödinger's 1944 definition of life since 1996.

    - self-maintained boundary ✓
    - internal homeostasis ✓
    - local entropy reduction ✓

    We have been living among the #undead this whole time.

    (Also building a compiler that does this on purpose.)

    #PostgreSQL #databases #autopoiesis #compilers #philosophy

  5. In #autopoiesis, the self-forming of a barrier between the #system & the outside world is required. This model has been expanded into other areas outside of Life. Technically, this requirement is a #Universal: to exist, there must be a clear demarcation between the object & "not-the-object."

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:w2lvfvgooagydunsj2dpxtnj/post/3mhswaj6whk2p

  6. Why I Had to Call It “The Zero Point of Narcissism” To understand the “Zero Point,” you must first understand the edifice it confronts. Kohut’s framework is elegant and powerful. It explains so much about our lifelong hunger for validation, our crushing experiences of narcissistic injury, and our fragile self-esteem. #Amirroring #Aphantasia #DevelopmentalPsychology #Consciousness #Autopoiesis #ZeroPointOfNarcissism cristinagherghel.substack.com/

  7. What if a foundational piece of developmental psychology is based on a blind spot?
    For decades, the field has operated on a core, unchallenged axiom: that every human self is built through the mirror of another's gaze and emotion. But what happens when that mirror is absent from the very beginning—not broken, but never held up? #Amirroring #Aphantasia #DevelopmentalPsychology #Consciousness #Autopoiesis #ZeroPointOfNarcissism zenodo.org/records/17857386

  8. Same source:

    Self-organizing systems are characterized by their intrinsic, nonlinear operators, (i.e., the properties of their constituent elements, macromolecules, spores of the slime mold, bees, etc.), which generate macroscopically (meta-) stable patterns maintained by the perpetual flux of their constituents. A special case of #self_organization is #autopoiesis. It is that organization which is its own Eigen-state: the outcome of the productive interactions of the components of the system are those very components. It is the organization of the #living, and, at the same time, the organization of #autonomy.

  9. @ShadSterling
    ...to #AGI/ #LLM machines of the next generation and the #IoT into our #3D (#4D if you count time in) into the world.

    There is a whole school of #German systems theoretics who applied the concept of #autopoiesis, discovered by the #Nobel #laureates, biologists, #neuroscientist and #pholosophers, Humberto R. #Maturana und Francisco J. #Varela, to the new field of #SociologicalSystemsTheory:
    #NiklasLuhmann,...

    @simon @annaleen @BBCWorld

  10. @ShadSterling @simon @annaleen @BBCWorld

    (8/n)

    ...matter for #AI?
    Because #Autopoiesis answers the question of the necessary and sufficient prerequisites for *living* systems.

    Prof. Albert #Scherr, in his article:

    ph-freiburg.de/fileadmin/share

    …writes the following (p.6), which, though the article is not intended for an application in #ArtificialIntelligence , IMO would explain why #LLM’s will reach a learning frontier that only embodiment, i.e. #robotics, will solve:
    “On the one..."

  11. @ShadSterling @simon @annaleen @BBCWorld
    (7/n)

    ...If you check the prerequisites for #autopoietic systems (as developed by #Varela), we might reach the conclusion that #GAI is already quite close to #Autopoiesis.
    (Note:
    The late #NiklasLuhmann is 1 of the most difficult authors to read and his works are chiefly available in German; I haven't studied him in a long time, so I cannot apply his whole concept to #AI, of which I also do not enough of).
    Why does #Autopoiesis + #SocialSystemsTheory..

  12. I think Maturana may have “jumped the gun” here by succumbing to the cybernetic #control vs. #controlled type of thinking and using a gun (a mere passive #product or #structure) as a metaphor for an active, living #system.

    In my mind, the notion of external control so pervasive in #cybernetics does not fit well with the notions of #autopoiesis and #constructivism.

    Unlike a (living) system, the gun has no other #choice but to react to the trigger, except, as Maturana notes, in case of malfunction (which is not equivalent to choice).

  13. @pj All of that are just "illustrations" of "living". #Living systems are alive. Fine! What do we need the term #autopoiesis for? Answer: We do not need it.

  14. @nielspflaeging

    Of course you can't do anything with it. It is #autopoiesis. It is doing things onto itself like #growing and #learning. 😉

  15. Autopoiesis. A beautiful word.
    And an utterly superfluous one.
    You cannot do anything useful with it.
    The word "living" is entirely sufficient. So forget about autopoiesis and work on living systems, making them "even more alive!"
    #systemsthinking #systemstheory #systems #betacodex #autopoiesis

  16. Control in #Cybernetics always has to come from the outside or is exerted, not internally onto the elements that make the system but onto something else outside of the “control” system.

    Even such brilliant thinkers as #FJ_Varela, one of the “fathers” of #autopoiesis could not escape this profoundly ingrained “cybernetic” assumption:

    “#Autonomy means, literally, self-law. To see what this entails, it is easier to contrast it with its mirror image, #allonomy or external law. This is, of course, what we call #control. These two images, autonomy and control, do a continuous dance.”

    Francisco J. Varela - Principles Of Biological Autonomy

    mechanism.ucsd.edu/teaching/f1

  17. The natural history of systems which exhibit #autonomy as a characteristic phenomenology shows that they share one universal feature suggested by #autopoiesis: organizational closure, i.e. indefinite recursion of component interaction.

    (ibid. p79)

  18. [Backtracking & Migration]

    28 déc. 2022

    Toward biological in-formation and biosemantics?!

    aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/

    #Autopoiesis

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