From autopoiesis to self-optimization: Toward an enactive model of biological regulation

Froese, Tom; Weber, Natalya; Shpurov, Ivan; Ikegami, Takashi

doi:10.1016/j.biosystems.2023.104959

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“…In this regard, irruption theory is consistent with a host of proposals that highlight how our bodies are organized as self-producing, thermodynamically open systems, situated dynamically at the edge of chaos, with a meta-stable grip on the world (for more detailed comparisons, see, e.g., Froese and Karelin, 2023 ; Froese et al, 2023 ). Its specific contribution is an alternative conceptualization of how to cash out the role of subjectively guided mental activity non-reductively: not in terms of the popular appeal to top-down constraints (e.g., Kelso, 1995 ; Freeman, 1999 ; Juarrero, 1999 ; Deacon, 2012 ), but rather as the destabilization of such spontaneously emergent constraints by irruptions.…”

Section: Irruption Theory Neural Entropy and Inter-brain Synchronysupporting

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Inter-brain desynchronization in social interaction: a consequence of subjective involvement?

Froese,

Loh,

Putri

2024

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Hyperscanning approaches to human neuroscience aim to uncover the neural mechanisms of social interaction. They have been largely guided by the expectation that increased levels of engagement between two persons will be supported by higher levels of inter-brain synchrony (IBS). A common approach to measuring IBS is phase synchrony in the context of EEG hyperscanning. Yet the growing number of experimental findings does not yield a straightforward interpretation, which has prompted critical reflections about the field’s theoretical and methodological principles. In this perspective piece, we make a conceptual contribution to this debate by considering the role of a possibly overlooked effect of inter-brain desynchronization (IBD), as for example measured by decreased phase synchrony. A principled reason to expect this role comes from the recent proposal of irruption theory, which operationalizes the efficacy of a person’s subjective involvement in behavior generation in terms of increased neural entropy. Accordingly, IBD is predicted to increase with one or more participant’s socially motivated subjective involvement in interaction, because of the associated increase in their neural entropy. Additionally, the relative prominence of IBD compared to IBS is expected to vary in time, as well as across frequency bands, depending on the extent that subjective involvement is elicited by the task and/or desired by the person. If irruption theory is on the right track, it could thereby help to explain the notable variability of IBS in social interaction in terms of a countertendency from another factor: IBD due to subjective involvement.

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Section: Irruption Theory Neural Entropy and Inter-brain Synchronysupporting

confidence: 67%

Inter-brain desynchronization in social interaction: a consequence of subjective involvement?

Froese,

Loh,

Putri

2024

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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“…In addition, the process of attaining attunement itself could be facilitated by irruptions. Connectionist models of minimal complex adaptive systems have shown that the alternation of divergent and convergent state tendencies, in combination with a basic form of associative memory, can give rise to global constraint satisfaction and generalization without centralized control or supervision (e.g., [28]). This form of errorless learning was first introduced into the literature as optimization by means of "self-modeling" [29], but the term "self-modeling" has also been popularly adopted by error-based predictive processing accounts of agency and consciousness (e.g., [30]).…”

Section: Mental Causationmentioning

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Irruption and Absorption: A ‘Black-Box’ Framework for How Mind and Matter Make a Difference to Each Other

Froese

2024

Entropy

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Cognitive science is confronted by several fundamental anomalies deriving from the mind–body problem. Most prominent is the problem of mental causation and the hard problem of consciousness, which can be generalized into the hard problem of agential efficacy and the hard problem of mental content. Here, it is proposed to accept these explanatory gaps at face value and to take them as positive indications of a complex relation: mind and matter are one, but they are not the same. They are related in an efficacious yet non-reducible, non-observable, and even non-intelligible manner. Natural science is well equipped to handle the effects of non-observables, and so the mind is treated as equivalent to a hidden ‘black box’ coupled to the body. Two concepts are introduced given that there are two directions of coupling influence: (1) irruption denotes the unobservable mind hiddenly making a difference to observable matter, and (2) absorption denotes observable matter hiddenly making a difference to the unobservable mind. The concepts of irruption and absorption are methodologically compatible with existing information-theoretic approaches to neuroscience, such as measuring cognitive activity and subjective qualia in terms of entropy and compression, respectively. By offering novel responses to otherwise intractable theoretical problems from first principles, and by doing so in a way that is closely connected with empirical advances, irruption theory is poised to set the agenda for the future of the mind sciences.

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Autopoiesis: Foundations of life, cognition, and emergence of self/other

Stano,

Nehaniv,

Ikegami

et al. 2023

Biosystems

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From autopoiesis to self-optimization: Toward an enactive model of biological regulation

Cited by 5 publications

References 32 publications

Inter-brain desynchronization in social interaction: a consequence of subjective involvement?

Inter-brain desynchronization in social interaction: a consequence of subjective involvement?

Irruption and Absorption: A ‘Black-Box’ Framework for How Mind and Matter Make a Difference to Each Other

Autopoiesis: Foundations of life, cognition, and emergence of self/other

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