Agential Anticipation in the Central Nervous System

Kazansky, Alexander B.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-19446-2_6

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“…The fundamental principle underlying the theory of invariance is that the laws of nature always have the same form for all observers [ 19 ]. This implies that all the elements of any developing living system interact, and thus all elements are ecologically equivalent, as the essence of ecological law and processes lies in invariance by which a living system following a disturbance returns to its stable state [ 20 , 21 ]. From a wildlife perspective, each organism, population, and community have different environmental scales in both time and space [ 22 ], and individual species may impact another species’ life history traits [ 23 , 24 ].…”

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Successional Categorization of European Hemi-boreal Forest Tree Species

Petrokas

Baliuckas

Manton

2020

Plants

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Developing forest harvesting regimes that mimic natural forest dynamics requires knowledge on typical species behaviors and how they respond to environmental conditions. Species regeneration and survival after disturbance depends on a species’ life history traits. Therefore, forest succession determines the extent to which forest communities are able to cope with environmental change. The aim of this review was to i) review the life history dynamics of hemi-boreal tree species in the context of ecological succession, and ii) categorize each of these tree species into one of four successional development groups (gap colonizers, gap competitors, forest colonizers, or forest competitors). To do this we embraced the super-organism approach to plant communities using their life history dynamics and traits. Our review touches on the importance and vulnerability of these four types of successional groups, their absence and presence in the community, and how they can be used as a core component to evaluate if the development of the community is progressing towards the restoration of the climatic climax. Applying a theoretical framework to generate ideas, we suggest that forests should be managed to maintain environmental conditions that support the natural variety and sequence of tree species’ life histories by promoting genetic invariance and to help secure ecosystem resilience for the future. This could be achieved by employing harvesting methods that emulate natural disturbances and regeneration programs that contribute to maintenance of the four successional groups.

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Successional Categorization of European Hemi-boreal Forest Tree Species

Petrokas

Baliuckas

Manton

2020

Plants

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Agential Patterns in Development and Evolution: Towards an Anti-entropic Approach to the Divergence of Altricial and Precocial Mammals

Kurismaa

2024

Biosemiotics

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Embodied instrumentation in learning mathematics as the genesis of a body-artifact functional system

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Recent developments in cognitive and educational science highlight the role of the body in learning. Novel digital technologies increasingly facilitate bodily interaction. Aiming for understanding of the body’s role in learning mathematics with technology, we reconsider the instrumental approach from a radical embodied cognitive science perspective. We highlight the complexity of any action regulation, which is performed by a complex dynamic functional system of the body and brain in perception-action loops driven by multilevel intentionality. Unlike mental schemes, functional systems are decentralized and can be extended by artifacts. We introduce the notion of a body-artifact functional system, pointing to the fact that artifacts are included in the perception-action loops of instrumented actions. The theoretical statements of this radical embodied reconsideration of the instrumental approach are illustrated by an empirical example, in which embodied activities led a student to the development of instrumented actions with a unit circle as an instrument to construct a sine graph. Supplementing videography of the student’s embodied actions and gestures with eye-tracking data, we show how new functional systems can be formed. Educational means to facilitate the development of body-artifact functional systems are discussed.

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Agential Anticipation in the Central Nervous System

Cited by 4 publications

References 15 publications

Successional Categorization of European Hemi-boreal Forest Tree Species

Successional Categorization of European Hemi-boreal Forest Tree Species

Agential Patterns in Development and Evolution: Towards an Anti-entropic Approach to the Divergence of Altricial and Precocial Mammals

Embodied instrumentation in learning mathematics as the genesis of a body-artifact functional system

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