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<p>For those interested in practopoiesis:<br>
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<p>A paper recently came out on the empirical predictions for
testing the theory of practopoiesis. One critique of the theory
was that it did not have testable empirical predictions. Now, this
has changed in a significant way. I wrote a long paper specifying
a number of non-trival predictions that can test whether the
theory of practopoiesis is sustainable or not. The paper is
published as a chapter in a book on the topic of closed loop
experimentation:</p>
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float: none;">Nikolic D. (2016) Testing the theory of
practopoiesis using closed loops. In:<span
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Press.</span></b>
<p>Anyone is welcome to run those experiments. And you can also
expect from me help in designing those experiments.<br>
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<p>Notably, I think that these predictions can be also used as an
inspiration for creating interesting computational models of the
dynamics of the nervous system -- especially to address challenges
of the relationship between the brain and mind. The theory and the
suggested experiments propose a new set of ideas on how the brain
creates global workspace, attention, working memory, how it
perceives, etc. There is a rich set of unanswered modeling
questions and challenges.<br>
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<p>One key point of the theory is that computational models of the
brain would need to implement closed loop interactions with the
environment of the organism, and that only then can the models
capture brain dynamics correctly. This way, the approach proposed
by practopoiesis is closely related to the work of J.J. Gibson and
"4E cognition", and departs from the traditional representational
view of the brain.</p>
<p>I was happy to see that the original paper on practopoiesis was
sitting for many months on top of the list of most read articles
at JTB. Thanks everyone for the interest.<br>
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And of course, please feel free to drop comments or ask questions.<br>
<p>Best,</p>
<p>Danko<br>
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Prof. Dr. Danko Nikolić
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