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concept:thoughts-as-agentsThoughts As Agents
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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- William JamescitesPhilosopher cited for the principle 'thoughts are thinkers'—foundational to Levin's framework of active memory.
Concepts (1)
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- Strange LoopimplementsSelf-referential feedback structure enabling thought patterns to scale up and reify themselves as independent thinkers.
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- William James aphorism cited by Levin to support the idea that thought forms possess minimal agency rather than being purely passive data.
- Any autonomous system including living and non-living forms that embodies a perception-action cycle and tries to navigate and persist in an environment
- Experimental paradigm where the model is told about the possibility of thought injection and asked to report detection and identification.
- Radical extension of diverse intelligence positing agency in non-physical patterns themselves.
- Mental or cognitive entities that may or may not depend on brains.
- Task where the model must simultaneously identify an injected thought and transcribe a text sentence.
- States that encode perceptual model and expectations; emerge naturally from free-energy optimization.