Process Theory

Foundational framework consisting of systems (wires), processes (boxes), and composition (wirings); basis for quantum and compositional reasoning.

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Whitehead Compositionality
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Process theory variant requiring all ingredients have clear meaningful ontological counterparts in reality.

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Schrödinger Compositional Theory
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Process theory variant where composition is non-trivial (whole cannot be decomposed meaningfully) and all ingredients have clear ontological counterparts in reality.
Whitehead-Compositional Theory
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Process theory where all ingredients have clear meaningful ontological counterparts in reality

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Process Philosophyframework0.843
Western philosophical tradition proposed as solution to Persistence Paradox; conceived self as process not thing.
Dual-process theoryframework0.832
Distinguishes fast pattern completion from deliberative control, used as analogy in paper.
Process theories can be derived from variational principles in a straightforward manner with biological plausibility.hypothesis0.813
Paper's core methodological hypothesis: gap between normative and process-level theories can be bridged.
Predictive Processing Theoryframework0.805
Theory that perception and cognition involve predictive coding; listed with indicators in Butlin et al. 2023.
processesconcept0.804
Represented by boxes in process theory; transformations that take systems as inputs/outputs
Process Aestheticsconcept0.799
Core framework: aesthetics of activity from the perspective of the actor, including self-reflective experiences and perception of external world as part of activity.
Theory Of Mindconcept0.789
Cognitive capacity attributed to humans and animals; referenced as basis for mentalism intuitions.
Complexity Theoryframework0.788
The class of explanations from the Santa Fe Institute tradition, including attractor dynamics and emergent order, evaluated as insufficient to fully explain the appearance of living structure