Pieces: an envelope, free energy, noise, composable bits, negation, closure
An Ontology of Complexity
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