Re: Theory and Therapy of Representations • 3
Re: Ontolog Forum • Paola Di Maio

JA:

What are the forces distorting our representations of what’s observed, what’s expected, and what’s intended?

PDM:

The short answer is …. the force behind all distortions is our own unenlightened mind, and all the shortfalls this comes with.

I think that’s true, we have to keep reflecting on the state of our personal enlightenments.  If we can do that without losing our heads and our systems thinking caps, there will be much we can do to promote the general Enlightenment of the State.

On both personal and general grounds we have a stake in the projects of self‑governing systems — whether it is possible for them to exist and what it takes for them to thrive in given environments.  Systems on that order have of course been studied from many points of view and at many levels of organization.  Whether we address them under the names of adaptive, cybernetic, error-correcting, intelligent, or optimal control systems they all must be capable to some degree of learning, reasoning, and self‑guidance.

Resources

• Survey of Cybernetics
• Survey of Differential Logic
• Survey of Inquiry Driven Systems

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