Title
Going round in Circles
Authors
Inman Harvey
Schedule
Date: Tuesday 5 Sept
Talk Time: TBA
Session: Perception, cognition and behaviour 14:00
Keywords
Circular causality, Cognition, Autopoiesis, Homeostat
Abstract
Life and cognition are inherently circular dynamical processes, and people have difficulty understanding circular causation. We give case studies illustrating some resulting confusions, and propose that the problems may lie in failing to properly distinguish between similar concepts used to describe both local and global features of a system.
