Goal-Directed Activity

Central property of agency: energy expended to reach specific states despite disturbances.

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thinker

William James
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Philosopher cited for the principle 'thoughts are thinkers'—foundational to Levin's framework of active memory.
Arturo Rosenblueth
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framework

Tame Technological Approach To Mind Everywhere
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A 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.
Homeostatic Loop
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Feedback mechanisms maintaining system states within desired ranges; the minimal engine of goal-directed activity.

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The ability to pursue goals is the core of being a Self.
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Goal-directed activity is proposed as the central invariant for all Selves across substrates.

concept

Goal-Directedness
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Proposed universal invariant of cognition and intelligence—capacity for goal-directed activity in a problem space, independent of substrate or embodiment.
Goal-Directed Behavior
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Observable behavioral pattern used to infer cognition; shared by plants and animals and proposed as evidence for sentience.
goal-directed behaviours
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Behaviours that are anticipatory, flexible, and adaptive, contributing to the inference of cognition.
Cognitive Light Cone
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Concept defining self by the spatiotemporal scale and nature of goals a system can pursue; limits of concern demarcate identity.

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