An Ontology of Complexity

Pieces: an envelope, free energy, noise, composable bits, negation, closure

Section

Compositions
of Bits

Type of
Prediction

History
Encoding

Types of
Closure

Phase Change
Enabled

1.1

Strings

Random

String

None

None

1.2

Search Threshold

1.3

Shapes

Adaptive

DNA

Metabolic
and Replicative

→ Life

1.4

Inductive and Knowability Thresholds

1.4

Thinkers

Informed

Real Patterns

Predictive

→ Intelligence

1.5

Speakers

Shared

Language

Lexical
and Pragmatic

→ Meaning

1.6

Beings

Self

Minds

Phenomenological
and Self

→ Consciousness

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