Froese, Tom and Karelin, Georgii and Takashi, Ikegami (2025) Making meaning matter with irruption theory: Bridging efficacy and uncertainty by satisfying the participation criterion. [Preprint]

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A central ambition of an expanded theoretical biology is to provide an account of how both physiology and agency, and each in their own irreducible way, contribute to the generation of adaptive behavior. To ensure that meaning-bearing aspects of agency make a measurable difference to behavior generation, we introduce a test for candidate theories, the “participation criterion”: End-directedness of a behavior entails that, in principle, it is distinguishable by measurement from one without end-directedness. We argue that end-directedness will show up in measurement as a local increase in unpredictability of physiological dynamics, which has the global effect of stochastically nudging the organism to the end state.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Froese, Tom tom.froese@oist.jp 0000-0002-9899-5274 Karelin, Georgii Takashi, Ikegami
Keywords:	teleology; maximum entropy production principle; dissipative structures; autogen; autocatakinetics; ecological psychology; agency
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Biology > Function/Teleology Specific Sciences > Complex Systems Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science > Consciousness General Issues > Determinism/Indeterminism General Issues > Explanation General Issues > Theory/Observation
Depositing User:	Dr. Tom Froese
Date Deposited:	27 Mar 2025 14:47
Last Modified:	27 Mar 2025 14:47
Item ID:	24957
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Biology > Function/Teleology Specific Sciences > Complex Systems Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science > Consciousness General Issues > Determinism/Indeterminism General Issues > Explanation General Issues > Theory/Observation
Date:	March 2025
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/24957

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