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Complexity and the Evolution of Consciousness | Biological Theory link.springer.com Sep 14, 2022 6 facts
referenceIn the book 'Metazoa', Peter Godfrey-Smith describes action as having to be reinvented at a larger scale with new forms of coordination.
claimThe 'pathological complexity thesis' posits that the diversity of subjective experiences is subservient to evaluation, as consciousness is discharged in action.
claimThe author defines 'action' in a teleonomic sense as any kind of functional activity produced by biological agents in their usage of their degrees of freedom, following the usage by David Spurrett (2020) and ethologists.
claimSingle-celled bacteria perform evaluations, such as swimming, sensing, hunting, and making decisions, within the teleonomic definition of action.
claimSpurrett (2020) defines "action" as the possession of degrees of freedom with alternative uses.
claimThe author's definition of action includes minimal senses of activity, such as plants producing chemical defenses, and aligns with work in robotics, artificial intelligence, and cybernetics regarding the computational complexity of building a teleonomic system.
Self-Consciousness - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Jul 13, 2017 4 facts
claimSecond-order volitions, as defined by Harry Frankfurt, involve wanting a certain desire to be one's will, meaning the subject wants that desire to move them to action.
referenceJérôme Dokic authored 'The Sense of Ownership: An Analogy Between Sensation and Action' in 2003, published in the collection 'Joint Attention: Communication and Other Minds'.
claimThe necessity of an active agent possessing some form of self-awareness is argued to follow from the connection between action and self-consciousness, a connection established by considerations of the essential indexical.
claimLucy O'Brien discussed action and immunity to error through misidentification in her 2012 chapter 'Action and Immunity to Error Through Misidentification'.
Evolutionary psychology - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 2 facts
claimAnimals ranging from fiddler crabs to humans utilize eyesight for collision avoidance, which suggests that vision is primarily for directing action rather than providing knowledge.
perspectiveEvolutionary psychologists argue that the primary purpose of perception is to guide action, contrasting with the view held by experts like Jerry Fodor that the purpose of perception is to provide knowledge.
The Synergy of Symbolic and Connectionist AI in LLM ... arxiv.org 1 fact
claimLarge Language Models are trained on large-scale transformers comprising billions of learnable parameters to support abilities including perception, reasoning, planning, and action.
How Enterprise AI, powered by Knowledge Graphs, is ... blog.metaphacts.com Oct 7, 2025 1 fact
procedureThe 'decision transformation' process for business intelligence follows a predictable journey consisting of three steps: (1) Data + context = information, (2) Information + meaning = knowledge, (3) Knowledge + action = decision.
Self-Consciousness - Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science oecs.mit.edu Jul 24, 2024 1 fact
claimAffordances are higher-order invariants in the optic array that specify an organism's potentialities for action, such as the presence of prey or shade.
KG-RAG: Bridging the Gap Between Knowledge and Creativity - arXiv arxiv.org May 20, 2024 1 fact
claimAn AI agent is composed of three core components: perception, brain, and action.
Global Workspace vs. Integrated Information: Testing… templetonworldcharity.org 1 fact
procedureThe experimental design for macaques involves three conditions: a target visual stimulus requiring a response, a non-target face not requiring a response, and an irrelevant visual stimulus, which allows researchers to distinguish between neural activity related to perception versus action.
The Synergy of Symbolic and Connectionist AI in LLM-Empowered ... arxiv.org Jul 11, 2024 1 fact
claimLarge Language Models (LLMs) are trained on large-scale transformers comprising billions of learnable parameters to support agent abilities such as perception, reasoning, planning, and action.
Panpsychism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2015 Edition) plato.stanford.edu May 23, 2001 1 fact
claimMalebranche's occasionalism posits that God must intervene between volition and action, and between stimulus and sensation, to account for the interaction between mind and the physical world.
Patterns in the Transition From Founder-Leadership to Community ... arxiv.org Feb 5, 2026 1 fact
claimIn the Institutional Grammar framework, an 'Action' (or 'Aim') identifies activities recognized by the institution as requiring governance, such as 'commit,' 'assign,' or 'review,' and functions syntactically as the verb.
The Mechanisms of Psychedelic Visionary Experiences - Frontiers frontiersin.org Sep 27, 2017 1 fact
claimThe common system for understanding both verbal and visual events relies on a distributed network that integrates perception, action, and conceptual processing.
Self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-transcendence (S-ART) frontiersin.org 1 fact
referenceCarver and Scheier (2011) discuss the self-regulation of action and affect in the Handbook of Self-Regulation.
Global workspace theory: consciousness as brain wide information ... selfawarepatterns.com Dec 29, 2019 1 fact
perspectiveThe author of the article argues that consciousness is not an intrinsic quality of a piece of information, but rather a status granted to information when it becomes accessible to multiple systems throughout the brain, such as memory, affect, action, and introspective systems.