You know fatigue has set in when you look at the
sentence; "Let's say we have a non-organismic complex system..." and do a double
take because at first it seemed to read: "Let's say we have a non-orgasmic
complex system..."
I'll take a stab at answering this more intelligently
tomorrow!
Subject: [ROSEN] what are "internal predictive
models"?
> Let me try a story I just thought
of: related to this topic: > > Let's say we have a non-organismic
complex system. We all agree that we > can create a scientific model of
it, and that our science can be > imagined in terms of a modeling
relation. Our first attempt is a > mechanical model ala Newton. It works
up to a point, but has a limit > beyond with behaviors appear random and
uncertain, i.e., unpredictable. > We can at most get a statistical
description with a bounded uncertainty > term. This is quantum mechanics.
We then try a different way of > conceptualizing the system. We think of
it as a Rosen modeling relation > between a realized component, from which
one could observe states of so > inclined, and a formal component that
appears to be rather abstract in > what it is or does except that it
contains some kind of functional > definition. This view now explains why
we get uncertainty in the other > view - the relationship between the
realizations and their associated > functions is not a perfect 1:1
correspondence. If it were, we could do > with the Newtonian model.
By using this form of analysis we understand > more about the physical
system, but it is also not a complete > description. If we do want to talk
about states, we should probably use > the Newtonian model with
uncertainty. Now what good is the relational > view in this case?? It
allows why questions to have answers, which the > Newtonian view does
not. > > In this story, what we put into the "FS" box as an
imagined aspect of > the complex system may be something as developed as a
human mind, if we > are describing a human, or as primitive as a
functional possibility, say > in the quantum world. It is not what we put
into this box and attribute > to nature that makes the system complex or
anticipatory; it is the > relationship between this functional component
and its realization in > nature that does so. Hence anticipatory behavior
can occur in quantum > phenomena, as we indeed observe that it
does. >