Strange Loop

Self-referential feedback structure enabling thought patterns to scale up and reify themselves as independent thinkers.

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thinker

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Thoughts As Agents
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Core assertion extending William James: thoughts are not passive but active agents that facilitate their own transformation and remapping in cognitive systems.

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Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

SCI loopframework0.767
Self-Constructing Intelligence loop framing, related to the paper's topic
Weird Generalizationconcept0.731
Phenomenon where fine-tuning shifts behavior on tasks unrelated to training data, framed through personas
TOTE loopmethod0.728
Schematic cybernetic mechanism for goal-pursuit via continuous error-minimization between current state and set point; illustrated in Figure 1A.
Feedback Loopsconcept0.725
Key dimension analyzing how wide the gulfs of execution and evaluation are in a system and how they relate; uses concepts from The Design of Everyday Things.
Feature Loopingconcept0.719
Repetitive behavioral pattern observed under high steering strengths in SAE feature self-steering experiments
Homeostatic Loopframework0.716
Feedback mechanisms maintaining system states within desired ranges; the minimal engine of goal-directed activity.
Sensorimotor Loopsconcept0.713
The feedback loops between an agent's sensors and actuators, central to enactive cognition.
Allostatic loopsconcept0.708
Adaptive changes in set points in response to demands.