2023
DOI: 10.3390/e25050748
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Irruption Theory: A Novel Conceptualization of the Enactive Account of Motivated Activity

Abstract: Cognitive science is lacking conceptual tools to describe how an agent’s motivations, as such, can play a role in the generation of its behavior. The enactive approach has made progress by developing a relaxed naturalism, and by placing normativity at the core of life and mind; all cognitive activity is a kind of motivated activity. It has rejected representational architectures, especially their reification of the role of normativity into localized “value” functions, in favor of accounts that appeal to system… Show more

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“…This call aligns with a recent proposal to advance the enactive approach to motivated activity by operationalizing an agent's motivational involvement in the generation of its behavior in terms of increased entropy production (Barrett, 2020a(Barrett, , 2020bSwenson, 2020). Froese (2023) responded with an analysis of the motivational involvement as associated with an increase in the underdetermination of that activity's constitutive material processes. The burst of underdetermined activity is called an "irruption" and it is argued to be approximately measurable by means of the resulting increase in fluctuations, specifically with information-theoretic measures of entropy.…”
Section: The Thesis Of Irruptionsupporting
confidence: 57%
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“…This call aligns with a recent proposal to advance the enactive approach to motivated activity by operationalizing an agent's motivational involvement in the generation of its behavior in terms of increased entropy production (Barrett, 2020a(Barrett, , 2020bSwenson, 2020). Froese (2023) responded with an analysis of the motivational involvement as associated with an increase in the underdetermination of that activity's constitutive material processes. The burst of underdetermined activity is called an "irruption" and it is argued to be approximately measurable by means of the resulting increase in fluctuations, specifically with information-theoretic measures of entropy.…”
Section: The Thesis Of Irruptionsupporting
confidence: 57%
“…In the following section we will present the irruption theory (Froese, 2023) as a development of the enactive approach to motivated activity that is broadly consistent with these criteria.…”
Section: The Principle Of Understandabilitymentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Froese' approach is centered in offering a novel, enactive conceptualization of motivated activity, such that the role of motivations is considered, and they are not left to the status of mere epiphenomena. Froese (2023) refers to this approach as a "motivation-involving" (p. 17) account of motivated activity, which is proposed as advancing an enactive account in line with the libertarian philosophy of freedom and agency. According to it, the motivated activity of an agent is not completely determined by her material embodiment but also irreducibly caused by her motivations.…”
Section: Irruption Theory and The Efficacy Of Motivationsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…As mentioned, the main task of explaining how motivated behavior is non-random even if it is materially underdetermined is placed in the third thesis of attunement. Although Froese (2023) mentions various promising models that could ground and further develop the attunement thesis, such as the embodied approach to habits (Ramírez-Vizcaya & Froese, 2020), implicit body memory (Froese & Izquierdo, 2018), and meta-stable attunement (Bruineberg et al, 2021), he favors the selfoptimization model of adaptivity and regulation (Froese et al, 2023). The latter proposes that a system, such as a neural network, can spontaneously optimize its internal organization to better satisfy its constraints over time (i.e., solve a "constraint satisfaction" problem).…”
Section: The Problem Of the Attunement Of Scaled-up Irruptionsmentioning
confidence: 99%