Applications for General Collective Intelligence

Williams, Andy E

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“…Metaphysical processes may be seen as being controlled by the causal-agent networks of intelligence processes that ideally operate coherently and relationally [35] to take parametric observations from a source and create intrinsic information that may then transform to satisfy a target's ontological epistemology. The exploration of such causal-agent relational dynamics requires development ( [284][285][286], cited in [35]) to provide a promise for predicting the mutual impacts of sapience and sentience. Assuming that the causal-agent networks are each individually coherent and relationally efficacious, and are thus not responsible for the creation of noise during the transformations and are carrying intrinsic information, then the system supporting a causal-agent continues to have structure-forming stability.…”

Section: Replacing Free-energy With Intrinsic Informationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Consciousness, Sapience and Sentience—A Metacybernetic View

Yolles

2022

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Living systems are complex dynamic information processing energy consuming entities with properties of consciousness, intelligence, sapience, and sentience. Sapience and sentience are autonomous attributes of consciousness. While sapience has been well studied over the years, that of sentience is relatively rare. The nature of sapience and sentience will be considered, and a metacybernetic framework using structural information will be adopted to explore the metaphysics of consciousness. Metacybernetics delivers a cyberintrinsic model that is cybernetic in nature, but also uses the theory of structural information arising from Frieden’s work with Fisher information. This will be used to model sapience and sentience and their relationship. Since living systems are energy-consuming entities, it is also natural for thermodynamic metaphysical models to arise, and most of the theoretical studies of sentience have been set within a thermodynamic framework. Hence, a thermodynamic approach will also be introduced and connected to cyberintrinsic theory. In metaphysical contexts, thermodynamics uses free-energy, which plays the same role in cyberintrinsic modelling as intrinsic structural information. Since living systems exist at the dynamical interface of information and thermodynamics, the overall purpose of this paper is to explore sentience from the alternative cyberintrinsic perspective of metacybernetics.

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Section: Replacing Free-energy With Intrinsic Informationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Consciousness, Sapience and Sentience—A Metacybernetic View

Yolles

2022

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“…For Williams [73], GCI enables intelligent agents to become organised into a collective intelligence with improved problem-solving ability. GCI functionality has the potential to increase the impact on collective challenges through decentralised collective efficacious coordination, as opposed to optimisation.…”

Section: General Collective Intelligence (Gci) and Autopoiesismentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This is a required condition common to evolutionary processes. Williams [73,87] considers some propositions that can satisfy subagency fitness maximisation for GCI. Since each subagency has a functionality, collectively, they must interact according to certain principles of decentralised cooperation so that they are able to maximise fitness outcomes for each.…”

Section: General Collective Intelligence (Gci) and Autopoiesismentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Now, an autopoietic network of processes is defined in terms of active subagencies that need to satisfy certain adaptive principles. These include a condition of centralisation, and three classes of decentralisation, which include process operations, relative value determination, and definition of fitness, based on Williams [73]:…”

Section: General Collective Intelligence (Gci) and Autopoiesismentioning

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Autopoiesis and Its Efficacy—A Metacybernetic View

Yolles

Frieden

2021

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This paper seeks to explain the nature of autopoiesis and its capacity to be efficacious, and to do this, it uses agency theory as embedded in metacybernetics. Agency, as a generalised intelligent adaptive living system, can anticipate the future once it has internalised a representation of an active contextual situation through autopoiesis. The role of observation and the nature of internalisation will be discussed, explaining that the latter has two states that determine agency properties of cognition. These are assimilation and accommodation. Assimilation is an information process and results in implicit cognition and recognition, whereas accommodation uses assimilated information delivering explicit cognition, recognition, and conscious awareness with rationality. Similarly, anticipation, a required property of the living, has two states, weak and strong, and these correspond to the two states of internalisation. Autopoiesis has various properties identifiable through the lenses of three autonomous but configurable schemas: General Collective Intelligence (GCI), Eigenform, and Extreme Physical Information (EPI). GCI is a pragmatic evolutionary approach concerned with a contextually connected purposeful and relatable set of task processes, each undertaken by a team of subagencies seeking collective fitness. Eigenform is a symbolic approach that is concerned with how observations can be suitably internalised and thus be used as a token to determine future behaviour, and how that which has been internalised can be adopted to anticipate the future. Extreme Physical Information (EPI) is an empirical approach concerned with acquiring information through observation of an unknown parameter through sampling regimes. The paper represents the conceptualisations of each schema in terms of autopoietic efficacy, and explores their configurative possibilities. It will adopt the ideas delivered to enhance explanations of the nature of autopoiesis and its efficacy within metacybernetics, providing a shift in thinking about autopoiesis and self-organisation.

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Applications for General Collective Intelligence

Cited by 2 publications

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Consciousness, Sapience and Sentience—A Metacybernetic View

Consciousness, Sapience and Sentience—A Metacybernetic View

Autopoiesis and Its Efficacy—A Metacybernetic View

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