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Long live the sublime
Trying to simulate autopoiesis in an emergent manner, with a simple scaling rule and with each unit having binary state attribution and a corresponding gate (AND, OR, XOR) associated to it.
Any literature on syntactic and semantic adaptivity relative to the symbol grounding problem, which actually considers this as a construction problem? Even in embedded robotics, it largely seems that symbol grounding is "solved" (it is of course rather explained away)
Rosen's foreword in Savageau's "Biochemical systems analysis: a study of function and design in molecular biology" gbragafibra.github.io/2025/06/28/ros…
Why are there systems in Nature which can literally build themselves!?
In Joseph Woodger's "The Technique of Theory Construction" (1939). (philpapers.org/rec/WOOTTO-14)
I’m enjoying Robert Rosen’s “Life Itself” (1991) so far - especially for observations like this:
I’m enjoying Robert Rosen’s “Life Itself” (1991) so far - especially for observations like this:
I’m enjoying Robert Rosen’s “Life Itself” (1991) so far - especially for observations like this:
The argument seems to largely be about the limits of formalization. But are any of the corresponding models in such set without a "largest one", really about organisms? Do these go beyond weak proxies for them (organisms)?