Component System

From AGIRI.org

A component-system is a theoretical model of complex systems created by George Kampis and discussed in his book Self-Modifying Systems in Biology and Cognitive Science. In essence, it is a pool of components that act on each other and combine with each other to produce new components.

Controversially, Kampis argues that component-systems are fundamentally uncomputable. Goertzel's Self Generating Systems are a model that arose as an explicitly-computable analogue of component-systems.

According to psychologist Allan Combs, at http://www.goertzel.org/dynapsyc/1995/COMBS.html,

" The basic idea here is that consciousness comes in units, termed states, each woven of psychological processes, or functions, such as memory, emotion, cognition, one's sense of humor, one's sense of self, etc. Here, I want to momentarily consider these elements in a more formal fashion, as simply forming a self- organizing assembly of constituents that interact with each other in a rich variety of ways. European systems theorist George Kampis (1991) has pondered such systems in detail. He terms them component- systems, and argues that they produce new and creative combinations that cannot, even in principal, be predicted by computational procedures such as performed by computers. The reason for this fundamental creativity is that the interactions of the component parts of these systems (processes to be more accurate) tend during their ordinary activity to build novel new structures (processes) while at the same time destroying some of those already present. These new elements in turn interact with each other and with the previously existing ones to produce new components not foreseeable from the original constituents. The net result is a rolling autopoietic event in which old structures are destroyed and original new ones routinely come into existence. "

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Mind Ontology
Supercategory: Complex Systems
Associated: Self Generating System