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> When something has enough complexity to be aware of the boundary between "it" and everything else, then we have a being of some kind. Exactly. This agency id
by paraschopra 8y ago
> When something has enough complexity to be aware of the boundary between "it" and everything else, then we have a being of some kind.
Exactly. This agency idea is appealing because it seems to unify a number of other ideas: from evolution (survival), autopioesis, active inference and Bayesianism. Without sounding too much of a crackpot, I hope we’ll be able to import subjective experience as a necessary component in the universe.
- ddingus 8y agoInteresting thoughts. I personally hope they are not as subjective as we see today. Perhaps there are reasons why, say red, appears as it does. A ruleset there would, to me at least, be profound. While it may remain impossible to directly convey thoughts, impressions, we may well end up with far better language to work with and see commonalities we do not today. Re: agency A thing aware it is a thing, may be the root of real AI too. I have long thought these disjointed, brain in a jar essentially, experiments lack that. No body, no closed loop with themselves, no sense of being = no agency. We may also find intelligence is rooted in an interest, need to exist, or just be an expression. By that, I mean what I did above. A rock is essentially what has happened. Information in matter form, a record. Agency, is meta. Beings see expressions, the world, and due to their nature, being sufficiently complex, have an interest, themselves, their kind, apart from the world and it's undulating history.