Sunday, September 30, 2007

J. Scott Turner, "The Tinkerer's Accomplice"

"The essential difference between cognition and intentionality. Both involve conformity between the "real" world and mental representations of that world. Cognition involves building a mental world that conforms to the real world outside. Changes in the real world impose similar changes on the mental worlds that represent it. Intentionality arises when a discrepancy between the real world and the mental world is resolved by work being done to make the real world correspond to the mental world."
Inspiration towards the idea of intentional initatiations of change within complex systems, lying interstitially between two subsystems. The actual means of connection between subsystems and between heirarchies of systems is what interests me.

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