Weaving Minds: An Integrated Holistic View of Consciousness from Faggin, Wilber, Deacon, Kastrup, and Hoffman | ChatGPT4

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How can Faggin’s view of consciousness evolution be aligned with Wilber’s evolution of the spirit?
How is Faggin’s Seities inter-related?
How does this perspective relate to Wilber’s four quadrants?
How is internal semantic experiences and external symbolic information viewed and how do their evolving co-creations enrich our understanding of reality?
Can Deacon’s views on language of humans as Symbolic Species be similarly aligned?
Can Kastrup’s theory of consciousness be similarly aligned?
How does Hoffman’s theory of consciousness similarly align?
How can Deacon’s semiotic approach to language enrich this understanding?
Can you summarize in the most elegant way possible an integrated and holistic view of consciousness from the different perspectives above?
Can you provide a title for a blog article expressing this?
Can you create a vibrant image representing this?

Integrating Predictive Coding and Life-Value in Healthcare: A Holistic Approach | ChatGPT4o

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- For a dissipative, far-from-equilibrium system to persist in time, what minimum conditions have to be satisfied?
- Stuart Kauffman mentions three closure constraints. What are they?
- What is causal closure by Matteo Mossio and Alvaro Moreno?
- How has Deacon’s thermodynamic perspective added to this?
- Can you reframe this in biosemiotic terms?
- “This autonomy is achieved through the dynamic interplay of semiotic processes that regulate energy flows, material exchanges, and information processing.” Can you unpack this for me please?
- When you say make decisions, how is this related to the work of predictive coding and the cognitive sciences?
- How does Lisa Feldman Barrett’s emotional constructive perspective and energy budgeting optimization scheme fits in here?
- How does Katherine Peil-Kauffman’s emotional sentience fit in here?
- He does this seamless integrative framework relate to pain and pleasure and hence why suffering and its alleviation?
- And how does this relate to the concepts of good and evil?
- How does McMurtry’s life-value onto-axiology fit in here?
- How do the clinical concepts of symptoms and signs in disease management fit in here and how does this translate into public health concepts?
- How do the complementary interpretive germ and terrain theory be reconciled and integrated here?
- Then given this life-enhancing framework of understandings, why all of these life-degenerating trends?
- How do the innate conflicts between money-value and life-value result in emotional and cognitive and relational and ecological dissonance, and how can this be rectified?
- How can this understanding help transform our financial and economic and political and legal systems so that money-value resonates with life-value and the aforementioned are not captured and corrupted by money-valued vested interests?
- Can you give a list of possible blog article titles reflecting this integrative framework of understanding?
- Can you write a detailed article summing up all we have learnt during this discussion?
- Can you construct a vibrant image reflecting this?
- Can you reproduce the same image but without words?

Intro to Terry Deacon’s Teleodynamics | Jeremy Sherman

How Molecules Became Signs | Terrence W. Deacon | Biosemiotics (2021)

Abstract

To explore how molecules became signs I will ask: “What sort of process is necessary and sufficient to treat a molecule as a sign?” This requires focusing on the interpreting system and its interpretive competence. To avoid assuming any properties that need to be explained I develop what I consider to be a simplest possible molecular model system which only assumes known physics and chemistry but nevertheless exemplifies the interpretive properties of interest. Three progressively more complex variants of this model of interpretive competence are developed that roughly parallel an icon-index-symbol hierarchic scaffolding logic. The implication of this analysis is a reversal of the current dogma of molecular and evolutionary biology which treats molecules like DNA and RNA as the original sources of biological information. Instead I argue that the structural characteristics of these molecules have provided semiotic affordances that the interpretive dynamics of viruses and cells have taken advantage of. These molecules are not the source of biological information but are instead semiotic artifacts onto which dynamical functional constraints have been progressively offloaded during the course of evolution.

Keywords Autogenesis · Information · Constraint · Interpretation · Scaffolding · Virus

Teleodynamics: Specifying the Dynamical Principles of Intrinsically End-Directed Processes | Terrence W. Deacon | IAISAE (2020)

ABSTRACT

Seven parameters are described that distinguish three hierarchically nested system dynamics that are characteristic of partially-bounded open subsystems. These are used to characterize the transition from self-organized inorganic to self-regulated living systems which exhibit self-synthesis, self-reproduction, and self-reconstitution in response to damage. This analysis demonstrates that yoked self-organizing processes that generate each-others’ boundary conditions can produce a form of co-dependent unity that exhibits these end-directed properties. A simple empirically testable molecular model system — an autogenic virus — is described for exploring these dynamical properties.

Keywords: organism, constraint, dissipative processes, self-organization, morphodynamics, autogenesis, MEPP, virus