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What are the enabling conditions for symbolic coherence?

What information can fit on a page? What information can fit in a thought?

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How could more than 1 thought be held? Yet..... how could it only be 1?

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Is experience a thought? If not, what is it?

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Do... → Variational Free Energy (accuracy&complexity) → Expected Free Energy (epistemic&pragmatic) .... capture the categories of drives?

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How does this connect with the Four Zones?

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https://www.freelists.org/post/math4wisdom/How-can-we-model-the-dynamics-of-our-inner-lives,2⁠

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I noted that we could look at the assumption built into the question. The notion of conditions itself suggest four zones:

a space within conditions,

the conditions beyond that space,

coming from the conditions into the space,

and going out of the space into the conditions.

These zones are familiar to the perception-action loop of Active Inference (organism, environment, perception, action) and they are also Spiritism, Materialism, Realism, Idealism, accordingly, as 4 worldviews in Steiner's system of 12 worldviews. Furthermore, the idea of symbols suggest pairs of zones, for the signifier and the signified, and there are six such pairs, assuming the are ordered in a particular direction. (Otherwise, there are 12 if you can go in either direction.) This is a familiar 4+6 structure of Wondrous Wisdom which also matches up with the 4 vertices and 6 edges of a tetrahedron.

Synergetics⁠

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What establishes the centrality of the Tetrahedra

@Foureyes⁠

? Does it have to do with space enclosure? Why does 4 enclose space?

What topologies for Action-Perception (other than 3- and 4-fold) exist?

What other shapes are important for

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? Why?

How can we use Shapes in guiding our

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Modes of thought.....

Structuring (into shapes,

Category Theory⁠

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Working within structure.

3-cycle?

Heading in and out of symbolic coherence during the duty cycle.

Within a symbolic coherence (pre-structured unawareness yielding awareness of uncertainty) → do we reduce uncertainty within that same symbolic set? Escape that symbolic set (to?)? Modify the initial symbolic conditions?

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I mentioned the four kinds of signs and six kinds of symbols based on Peirce's icon (what), index (how), symbol (why) and the underlying thing they signify (whether).

And there are six qualities of signs which I identify with pairs of levels.

http://www.ms.lt/derlius/qualitiesofsigns.gif⁠

The "five M's" were described in this 1987 paper "Symbol Structures in Connectionist Networks: Five Properties and Two Architectures." Touretzky, David S., Derthick, Mark A.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221534890_Symbol_Structures_in_Connectionist_Networks_Five_Properties_and_Two_Architectures⁠

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and I have a related 4+6 structures in my presentation "Divine Understanding and Human Imagination: Face-to-Face by the Gates of Art"

https://www.math4wisdom.com/wiki/Research/20210522UnderstandingImagination⁠

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Established artists speak with their art to the system that recognizes them. The authorities, for their part, are concerned with patronizing, influencing and controlling quality art as the gateway to the Unimaginable, which people should admire but not pass through.

I also mentioned the relevance for language of six visualizations arising from pairs of three basic structures: sequences, hierarchies, networks.

https://www.math4wisdom.com/wiki/Research/20180624VisualizationsParadoxes⁠

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