Deacon discusses his 3 nested hierarchic levels for all systems - which are at the heart of his legendary 2011 book, Incomplete Nature. We build from homeodynamics to morphodynamics to teleodynamics. The 4-page paper covering these high-level details:
🚩 Teleodynamics: Specifying the Dynamical Principles of Intrinsically End-Directed Processes iaisae.org/wp-content/uploads...
🧠 Incomplete Nature www.amazon.com/Incomplete-Nat...
Terry Deacon is Professor of Anthropology and member of the Cognitive Science Faculty at the University of California, Berkeley. Renowned for his groundbreaking work on the evolution of language and symbolism, Deacon's interdisciplinary approach explores the intricate connections between brain structure, semiotic processes, and human consciousness.
Homeo
0:00 Terry's background
10:00 Incomplete Nature & absence
12:00 Homeodynamics / thermodynamics
16:00 Morphodynamics self-assemble but are self-destructive
22:00 Teleodynamics and viruses
25:00 Autocatalytic sets
🔥 28:00 Each system relies on the others' boundary constraints
Morpho
32:30 When are conditions just right for morphodynamics? Homeo +A + Homeo -A
35:20 Rayleigh-Bénard convection cells
38:00 W. Ross Ashby's "self-simplification"... Morpho = generation of constraints
40:35 Constraints & Shannon information
45:05 Normative chemistry & the origin of value
48:20 3 information types and 3 dynamics.... semiotics
52:15 Symbolic communication requires removing iconic index
57:30 Triadic hierarchy... Charles Pierce "firstness, secondness, thirdness"
59:45 DNA, RNA, amino acids & iconic to indexical links... recursive loops
🔥 1:06:30 "An emergent dynamical transition is signaled by a change in the topology of the phase space of probable dynamical trajectories."
1:09:00 1D topology constraining structure of 3D topology
1:12:36 'Morphodynamics' because there is no "self"
1:13:50 Morphodynamics eventually decays to homeodynamics, teleo decays to morpho
Teleo
1:17:55 Semiotics only in the humanities and not science, sadly
1:23:23 Why do symbols begin with teleodynamics? Requires interpretive mechanism
1:28:00 Gregory Bates' map-territory relationship... the key to life... information is physical
1:34:15 'Information' is not about information... it's about the signal
1:35:30 Is there a level 4, beyond teleodynamics? Peacocking
1:38:15 Specifics on homeo/morpho/teleo
1:40:00 Symmetry breaking
1:42:45 Scientific community's response to Incomplete Nature? (+autogenic viruses)
1:47:40 Karl Friston's free energy principle
1:52:30 Douglas Hofstadter's strangle loops in Gödel, Escher, Bach
1:55:00 The self-undermining paradox discovered with set theory
1:56:30 Complex/imaginary numbers
🔥 1:59:25 Incompleteness story built into the cosmos... can't stop dimensionality
2:05:55 Take Godel literally "...because the universe has no miracles, it has to be incomplete"
2:06:45 Absence... yin/yang & Tao Te Ching
2:09:50 A book every 14 years
2:10:30 If you could give your 20-year-old self one piece of advice?
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