Re: Prescission, transcendental methods, active inference

    On Wednesday, November 9, 2022 at 02:17:21 PM AST, Paola Di Maio <paola.dimaio@gmail.com> wrote:  
 
 Much to dig into for those interested to continue to learn
Let us be reminded for a moment of Transcendental Truth 
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19111996/
although the ultimate scientific authority of a transcendental value of truth was a view held almost universally by the greatest scientists throughout recorded history, modern science has all-but banished references to truth from professional scientific discourse 

The concept of truth is not universal, it means many different things to different scholars in a variety of academic fields.
In mathematics, physical sciences, computer science and computability it is limited, but in social sciences, psychology, philosophy, history and literature there are many flavors.
Truth (in the perception) in reality, in perception, realism, reasoning and philosophy of mind, philosophy of science covers a broad spectrum of concepts, which for the sake of KR&R and for AI in particular are hard to capture in a single class of conceptualizations.


I am reading about prescission - further exploring the pointer provided by Mike in the earlier mail, so sharing it here (yes, middle of the night, sore eyes)
An introductory article
http://www.commens.org/encyclopedia/article/gava-gabriele-prescissi
But precision is not thus reciprocal; but on the contrary it is frequently the case that though A cannot be prescinded from B, B can be prescinded from A” 


note by PDM:  this is seen in some type of relations, where the child cannot possibly exist without a parent.  not viceversa
Causality is an option, and so is the axiom of choice.

More in detail
https://philpapers.org/rec/GAVPPAPeirce’s ‘Prescision’ as a Transcendental MethodGabriele Gava 
prescision is similar to some abstracting procedure that Immanuel Kant used in his Critique of Pure Reason.

The transcendental method is foundational to scienceshttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0039368112000817

Here we must distinguish between science itself, ontology and epistemology.

Free energy and active inferenceThe abstract only is open for this paper, but its enough to get the gistFriston K, Kilner J, Harrison L (2006) A free energy principle for the brain. J Physiol Paris 100(1–3):70–87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jphysparis.2006.10.001
A problem of scope for the free energy principle as a theory of cognition
https://philpapers.org/rec/SIMAPO-8
I would recommend reading up on how the System 1 and System 2 in cognition can be modeled using complex adaptive systems and complex adaptive systems of systems for cognition and cognitive architectures.