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framework:autopoiesisAutopoiesis
Maturana-Varela principle of self-maintaining systems that organize themselves through internal feedback; extended here to biological, technological, and hybrid systems.
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- The biogenic approach to cognitionimplements
Thinkers (8)
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- Francisco Varelaassociated_withintroducesCo-originator of autopoiesis concept and enactivist approaches to cognition and embodied mind.
- Humberto Maturanaassociated_withintroducesCo-originator of autopoiesis principle for self-maintaining systems.
- Olaf Witkowskiassociated_withCo-author; researcher at Cross Labs and Earth-Life Science Institute; contributes to interdisciplinary AI and biology integration.
- Evan Thompsonassociated_with
- Francisco J. VarelaintroducesAuthor of 'Patterns of life: Intertwining identity and cognition' (1997) on sensorimotor loops and identity.
- Evan Di Paoloassociated_with
- Humberto R. MaturanaintroducesCo-originator of autopoiesis concept.
- Maturana and VarelaintroducesFounders of autopoiesis theory, cited as key organicist critics of the machine metaphor
Concepts (9)
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- Structural couplingassociated_withimplementsMaturana's concept of continuous dynamic interaction between an organism and its environment; key to understanding living cognition.
- Core framework: stress (perceived mismatch between current and optimal states) → care (engaged concern) → intelligence (capacity to identify and solve problems) → new stresses, in recursive loops. Applies to biological, technological, and hybrid systems.
- Selfletsassociated_withLevin's model of continuous cognition as series of frames, each ~100-300ms thick; each Selflet is a temporal agent separated from others by time.
- Poiesisassociated_withGreek concept of making/production as revelatory process; Heidegger's distinction grounds ethics of technology.
- Dynamical Systems TheoryimplementsMathematical and conceptual framework for modeling complex self-organizing systems; applied here to action and cognition.
- Organizational ClosureimplementsCircular topology of production processes whereby the product of a system's operation is its own organization.
- autopoietic technologysubtype_ofThe idea that technology participates in autopoietic loops alongside humans, not as mere tool but as partner.
- Autopoetic Caresubtype_of
- Self-organized criticalityassociated_withBak's framework describing complex systems that spontaneously organize toward critical states; applicable to living organization.
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- Care and Cognitionmembers_of
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- Core claim of biogenic approach: cognition is not unique to brains or nervous systems but emerges from living organization itself.
Frameworks (7)
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- Stress Care Intelligence Loopassociated_withextends
- Enactivismassociated_withextendsTheoretical approach treating cognition and self as emergent from embodied interaction; foundational to the paper's 'selfless self' model.
- Tame Technological Approach To Mind Everywhereassociated_withA conceptual framework for understanding cognition and intelligence across diverse substrates—including evolved biological systems, artificial systems, and bioengineered systems—using empirically-grounded, gradualist approaches. TTAME enables comparative analysis of mind-like phenomena regardless of the physical or biological substrate in which it emerges, facilitating cross-disciplinary study of unconventional intelligences.
- Free Energy Principleassociated_withA foundational variational principle from statistical physics that formalizes how self-organizing systems maintain structural integrity and adapt to their environment by minimizing free energy—a mathematical bound on surprise or prediction error. Originally developed by Karl Friston, the framework unifies action, perception, and learning as processes of active inference, where systems both update internal models of the world and act upon it to reduce the divergence between predictions and observations.
- Active Inferenceassociated_withFoundational framework by Karl Friston; the paper extends it to three hierarchical levels for modeling meta-awareness.
- Integrated Information Theoryassociated_withTononi et al. framework quantifying consciousness via integration; provides mathematical tools for measuring agent complexity.
- Autopoetic Care Theorysubtype_of
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- Maturana, H.R. and Varela, F.J. (1991) Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living.introducesFoundational work on autopoiesis.
- Biology of cognitionintroducesMaturana's 1970 seminal paper establishing biological foundation for cognition; directly cited and foundational to Lyon's work.
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- Mechanism of self-sustaining organization in nonequilibrium systems; relevant to understanding intention formation.
- The mechanism by which LLMs generate text: drawing a token from the next-token distribution and appending it to context repeatedly
- Foundational computational paradigm of local rules producing emergent global behavior, extended by this work
- Automated benchmarking framework for evaluating LLM meta-cognition, mentioned as related work.
- Transformers are recurrent through autoregression because the K/V stream provides horizontal information flow across positions, even though each forward pass is feedforward.
- A process that heals the world by generating living structure, synonymous with living process.
- Competitive bidding mechanism in the game where players vie for animal cards.
- A locally complete, self-contained creative process that creates a single center from conception to completion, in a continuous sequence.