on causal scope

Causal state All universal phenomenal are causal state, of varying {lifecycles; temporal frame; scope} Causal state is composed; finite legal forms Phenomenal behaviour Construction; participation; discontinuation Phenomenal evaluation Upon intersection Conditional, dependent upon extrinsic/ intrinsic circumstances Energy Potential/ fields/ forces; temporally relative structure; sub threshold, non-evaluated influence; post-threshold compositional evaluation; causal credit Matter 1. Relative locality; finite causal encapsulation; evaluation latency {construction; intrinsic cycle}, continuous (cyclical) evaluation of encapsulated intrinsics; relative compositional/ behavioural profile; coordinated potential translation/ constraint; intersection scope {temporal/ causal (remote); chemical (local special); material (local general)} Phenomenal evolution Prior: trends in phenomenal discontinuation upon intersection/ evaluation with phenomenally extrinsic circumstances (discontinuation by evaluation of phenomenal intrinsics typically relates to instability of compositional form/ causal cycle: thermodynamics, etc; which however slight, still implicates extrinsics) Reconstruction/ recomposition such that upon intersection with extrinsic circumstances the evaluation of composition and (respective behaviour) prevents compositional discontinuation Chemicals Conditional, finitely incremental phenomenal composition Upon intersection, the characteristics of chemicals are evaluated Proximity {remote; local}; scaffold {chemical; special}; base {material; general} Biology Biological behaviour Biological evolution Cells Neurones Neuronal intelligence Notes from on cognition and computation....

March 5, 2024 · 285 words

on phenomenal substrate

A map is not the territory it represents, nor is a map the territory it represents upon – the respective maps’ representational substrate; and although, typically, the utility and accuracy of every map is measured by degree of alignment with the former – the territory it represents – a map is most fundamentally constrained by the nature and granular composition of the latter – its respective representational substrate; because above all, whether right or wrong, useful, correct or neither – a map is always (and can only ever be) one of a finite-set-of-possible structural compositions, of respective representational substrate, all the way down....

March 5, 2024 · 1075 words

on writing and double empathy

The ambiguity of words complicates writing. Especially technical writing, with ambitious objectives: 1) to communicate definite, specific, ideas; 2) well-enough, to result in the formation of sufficiently equivalent ideas in the mind of a reader. Communication must also account for existing ideas – ideas, already present in the mind of a reader; prior knowledge, which might obscure, pollute, or corrupt the composition or contextual framing, of new ideas Often, the ambiguity of words follows from the ambiguity of minds....

February 26, 2024 · 305 words

gist - domain translation & the accessibility of science writing

premise from on scientific technical debt#conclusion Software code is more accessible than science writing because software has a well-defined general-domain, to standardise special-domain composition; and science does not (but ought to) Inaccessibility is one aspect of technical-debt. Refactoring technical-debt, by principled iterative recomposition of special-domain concepts, around standardised principles, primitives and intermediates, of a well-defined general-domain, improves accessibility, productivity and quality. domain translation Consider accessibility as ‘domain translation’ To make writing/ code accessible, we translate from a special-domain, to an implicit general-domain; such that special-concepts are recomposed from more general-concepts; then re-described in corresponding terms....

February 24, 2024 · 308 words

on scientific technical debt

introduction This sequence of ’toot-sized digests’ (eventually), compares the accessibility of science-writing and software, using a generalised method/ process/ system (?) for thinking across distinct conceptual domains; which began as a set of principled assertions and intuitions for illuminating and reasoning around/ about anomalous phenomena (originally conceived and developed for this #project) skip to: {#results; #analysis; #discussion} occasion An online conversation about the frustrating inaccessibility of the language and writing of some scientific papers; which began here (with @ngaylinn); included a variety of interpretations of the problem-space (multi-disciplinary ?...

February 10, 2024 · 3796 words

writing dependency inversion

“it is what we know already that often prevents us from learning” - Claude Bernard The ambiguity of words complicates writing. Especially technical writing, with ambitious objectives: to communicate ‘definite, specific ideas’, well-enough to result in the formation of ‘sufficiently equivalent ideas’ in the mind of a reader. Technical communications must also account for existing ideas – ideas, already present in the mind – prior knowledge which may {obscure; pollute; or corrupt} the {construction; composition; or contextual framing}, of new ideas...

January 29, 2024 · 87 words

on accessible scientific writing

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knowledge

Knowledge is : The artefact of interpretation Conditional conditionality (scoped/ contextual conditionality) #tbc

January 20, 2024 · 13 words

language

we routinely speak past each other, using different words for the same things, and the same words, for different things While physical movement shapes circumstances by direct manipulation; language influences circumstances by proxy, albeit only when interpreted 1. Language is a (lossy) knowledge synchronisation protocol Knowledge is a (high-dimensional) relational, representational graph (of sensory conditions, and derived forms) which:- Cannot be synchronised directly (by natural means) Is the evaluable artefact (state), of embodied sensory {cognitive; interpretive} operation(s) (processes), which equates to {cognitive; interpretive, and; behavioural} conditionality We use language to externally synchronise (and validate) accrued knowledge; to communicate Communication is linear (words are a linear sequence of letters; phrases and sentences are a linear sequence of words, etc), and as such to communicate knowledge (whether by speaking or writing, in words, phrases or sentences), knowledge must be serialised (into language) Language:- serialisation includes two several dimensions {encoding; expression} (in practice, expressions become composite encodings) #tbc this will be updated to refer to conceptual-domain and layers of communication-domain Deserialisation is dependent upon knowledge {high-dimensional graph; embedding; etc}, for interpreting, and decoding Language is inherently ambiguous, because:- The same letters apply to arbitrarily-many words The same words apply to arbitrarily-many sentences The same words and sentences apply to arbitrarily-many situations every legal sequence of letters, words and sentences, might mean different things in different situations, and as such, must be interpreted contextually 2 Serialisation equates to isolating, ordering and sequencing nodes and node-relationships, of an unordered, arbitrarily associated, and (generally) continuable, graph A graph segment 3 is a operationally isolated selection/ scope of nodes and node-relations 4 The process and result of isolating a graph segment is somewhat dependent upon pre-exiting representation, within active and possible contexts of interpretation Any non-trivial graph segment is plurally enumerable (more than one possible sequence); might serialise to arbitrarily many distinct ordered sequences, of expression Plural enumeration -> plural sequential expressions?...

January 18, 2024 · 1235 words

behaviour judgement

One of the motivations for this project was a profound dissatisfaction with societal norms based upon, or related to: ‘unconditional or special-case behavioural judgements (behaviour judgements)’ 1. #tbc Specifically in relation to the quartet ↩︎

January 16, 2024 · 34 words

phenomenal trace diagram - cognition

biologyevolutioncognitionpre-biologydependencyconstraintexperiencebehaviourbraincellsmulti-cellularrelationevaluation

January 16, 2024 · word

io - writing accessibility - notes

this post was prompted by a thread started by @[email protected], and a subsequent post by @[email protected]. thanks to both! The accessibility of scientific writing matters; but not all scientific writing is accessible. —why? –what can be done? #tbc

January 14, 2024 · 38 words

phenomenal trace - writing

a basic phenomenal trace for writing scientific writingsoftware (code)external artefact (serialised)action/ behaviour <operation>internal artefact (graph)communication <synchronisation>general writingbiologypre-biologycognitionknowledgeevolutionwriting <serialisation>transformation <encoding>knowledge -> languagereading <interpretation>language -> knowledgetransformation <decoding>autonomyreplicationencapsulationwritten worddependencyconstraintphenomenal/ compositional/ superveningcausal peer

January 14, 2024 · 29 words

nexus phenomena

’nexus’ phenomena align high-dimensionally, across plural phenomenal scopes (or levels) of concern Nexus phenomena include : Autonomy Cognition Phenomenological experience #tbc

January 10, 2024 · 21 words

beginnings

Where to begin Can’t get to anywhere from anywhere Seem like an open, intractable problem until you know more about where you want to end up Deciding where to begin can be such a challenge, and the journey of discover so exhausting, that we often forget, (or can’t bear the thought), that the simplest (or only) way forward, might in fact be to begin again Where to begin, I have come to believe, might be the single most complicated, time-consuming and important question encountered throughout life Conventional wisdom suggests that the important thing is simply that we begin, somewhere: anywhere Just pick Circumstances serendipity Somewhere and progress To initiate a process of thought, As a first step towards or into a conceptual terrain of the mind 1 Often, though very much situation dependant, At times the latter simplifies; other times And this is fine as a productivity tip in any moment of inactive intent Though it is a compromise, not a panacea Most of the time the consequences of this compromise are unnoticed or inconsequential But it does matter Sometimes we get to choose; sometimes we don’t Life is often simpler when we don’t have to choose for ourselves Aside about physical, tangible metaphors for conceptual, intangible phenomena ↩︎

January 8, 2024 · 208 words

adaptive autonomy

consider: Neurones as informational adaptation; or configuration (for physical adaptations) The first neurone implemented a threshold condition for stimulus organism response 1 Neurones as a homogeneous substrate to implement arbitrary conditional response Adaptive autonomy refers to momentary neuronal evolutionary lifecycle: the idea that initially the material structure and value of neuronal conditionality was tied to generational evolution (just as physical adaptations) (see fixed autonomy) Later, adaptive autonomy followed the decoupling of neuronal conditionality from generational evolutionary lifecycles (of physical animals), by learning....

January 7, 2024 · 86 words

avoidance

Sample (physical) Symbol (interpreted) Core (reinterpretation) Area (inferred) 1 history Fixed autonomy: inherited; instinct 2 Adaptive autonomy: learning, interpreted Meta interpretation ↩︎ Pre-learning: probably expulsion/ repulsion ↩︎

January 7, 2024 · 25 words

fixed autonomy

consider: Neurones evolved as informational adaptation; or configuration (for physical adaptations) The first neurone implemented a threshold condition for stimulus organism response 1 Neurones as a homogeneous substrate to implement arbitrary conditional response fixed autonomy refers to generational neuronal evolutionary lifecycle: the idea that the ‘first neurones’ did not exist within a sophisticated system for dynamic neuronal associations during an animals lifetime. and as such, any conditionality implemented by neurones, was inherited (instinct)....

January 7, 2024 · 119 words

thought

arriving thought Conscious attention queue Continuation Deferred opportunistic learning Recall Derivation Interpretation Context Split {0; 1/3; 2/3; 1} Matters for attention #tbc

January 7, 2024 · 22 words

area avoidance technical

autonomy see: autonomy x. motivation ii side-effects This aspect of motivation, has significant side-effects While activation patterns for muscle sequence/ operation are reversible However, there is no distinction of purpose at this level of muscles concerns, and the same chemical resources are released to muscles for any action 1 2 x. motivation iii #tbc x. motivational conflict Even early biological autonomy must survive complex situations (representational scenes), which include both : Phenomena essential for survival (like food), and; Phenomena which threaten death (like predators) The ‘scene-evaluated-measure’ (relative significance) of this complex scene might result in conflicting motivation (positive and negative) 3, and significantly, conflicting activation patterns....

January 3, 2024 · 896 words