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[Stephen Guerin]

Steve,

Deacon's three dynamics in your image directly map to Stu's three processes
around constraint processes for Autonomous Agents (living system) in
Investigations (2000).
- detect gradients
- construct constraints to extract work from gradients
- do work to maintain those constraints

Here's a later paper by Logan describing the interaction of Deacon and Stu
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264895121_EME_Logan-KauffDeacon

Relatedly, Alicia Juarrero has an upcoming book this summer on constraint:
"Context Changes Everything:
How Constraints Create Coherence"

As an aside, Alicia had some issues with Deacon accusing him of academic
plagiarism on her earlier works. Point is there's a community of interest
in the constraint and living systems space.

As you've been subjected to my babble for 15 years:  constraint
dissipation, construction and maintenance is a lens I've been thinking
about and how least action, dual fields and symmetry breaking
(constraint/information) relate to these processes the mechanism of dual
diffusion. this lens is "ententional" in deacons language where the
organism is just a partial dual inthe definition of a living process. Also
related to me to EricS and Harold's ecological perspective on life which
we've talked about.


On Tue, Feb 21, 2023, 8:23 AM Steve Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com> wrote:

>
> Just to keep my flog landing on the hide of the horse that may have
> expired several posts ago in this chain: Deacon's introduction of *teleo*
> to this characterization of complex adaptive systems  is the *first*
> example I have found which is even a little bit compelling toward
> understanding "Life Itself" (in the sense of what Schrodinger was going on
> about in 1944)...
>
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