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Carlos E. Perez

22 Jan, 7 tweets, 2 min read

Interactive Emergence is a neologism that Horst Hendriks-Jensen uses in his book Catching Ourselves in the Act. mitpress.mit.edu/books/catching…

"Patterns of activity whose high-level structure cannot be reduced to specific sequences of movements may emerge from the interactions between simple reflexes and the particular environment to which they are adapted"

An individual's cognitive capabilities are forged by their perceptive and volitional selves. This is an expression of Uexkull's umwelt. Which brings up the question, what is the equivalent for the narrative and social selves?

Perhaps that's my neologism 'empathic emergence' or 'empathy emergence' for short. These are the cognitive capabilities that are forged as we navigate the complexities of shared intentionality.

The controversial psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan has come into my radar screen with some fascinating ideas about how humans might create mental models of the world. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_L…

Lacan's ideas may have an interesting synergy with Spiral Dynamics and Kegan's Constructive Developmental Theory. Social beings create virtual models of their societies and interact with these models so as to succeed.

If we are to build artificial general intelligence that are able to translate human intention to appropriate action, then we need to employ models that do capture the semantics necessary for good judgment in the world of humans.

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