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concept:self-organizing-systemSelf-Organizing System
Systems whose structure emerges from internal communication patterns rather than external design; the paper proposes consciousness as arising in such systems
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- Self-Organizationrelated_toSpontaneous emergence of long-range order in networks; modeled as neural and basal cognition.
- Self-organisationrelated_toPhenomenon of spontaneous long-range order emerging from local interactions; central phenomenon explained by topological constraints
- Biological Softwareassociated_withThe paper's characterization of living organisms' causal patterns as software — evolving, self-organizing, self-perpetuating, agentic — distinct from engineered code
- Best Effort Computingassociated_withAckley's concept of computing systems that dynamically compensate for indeterministic substrates, analogous to biological control structures
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- Central phenomenon: emergence of life-like organization (boundaries, inference, homeostasis) from coupled random dynamics.
- The regulated entity or process; includes air traffic, endocrine balances, money flows.
- Happe 2003 hypothesis that humans use a single cognitive system for reasoning about mental states of self and others
- Process of reifying one's identity as an independent self; meditation practices aim to decrease selfing.
- Linking self-organisation to cognition and navigation of configuration space
- Approach of nudging components with agendas to achieve desired outcomes rather than micromanaging.
- Core framework: necessary conditions on graph topology for ordered phases to exist in locally-interacting systems.