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By A. Carsetti

The quantity as its first aim goals at clarifying that unusual entanglement of complexity, causality, which means, emergence and intentionality that characterises the unfolding of the "natural types" of human cognition

As is celebrated, cognition is not just a self-organising strategy. it's also a co-operative and paired method. If we examine the exterior atmosphere as a fancy, a number of and stratified resource which interacts with the worried procedure, we will simply comprehend that the cognitive actions dedicated to the "intelligent" look for the intensity details dwelling within the resource, might verify the very switch of the complexity stipulations based on which the resource steadily expresses its "wild" motion. during this experience, simulation versions should not impartial or in basic terms speculative: the real cognition truly seems to be inevitably attached with profitable sorts of studying, these varieties, particularly, that let a particular coherent unfolding of the deep info content material of the resource. for that reason, the simulation types, if legitimate, materialise as "creative" channels, i.e., as self sufficient useful platforms, because the very roots of a brand new attainable improvement of the full process represented by means of brain and its truth. From a common perspective, the objectivity of fact can also be proportionate to the autonomy reached through cognitive strategies.

In this feeling, on the point of cultural evolution, reference approaches act as consultant, replicate and canalisation with recognize to basic details flows and concerned selective forces: they give themselves because the genuine tools for the consistent renewal of the code, for the discovery and the particular articulation of an ever-new incompressibility. From an efficient perspective, they seem as indissolubly associated with the successive definition of particular (and cutting edge) measures of the epistemic complexity. those measures can't situation in basic terms statistical rarity (Shannon) or computational incompressibility (Kolmogorov-Chaitin), to the contrary they need to even be capable of bear in mind the coupled connection among the resource and the cognitive agent, the evolution of this connection in addition to the successive structure of which means as symbolic shape. accordingly the prospective (and invaluable) definition of latest axiomatic structures, new degree areas, the genuine showing of methods of constant reorganisation on the semantic point. certainly, it's only via an entire, first-order "reduction" and a correlated non-standard second-order research that new incompressibility will truly present itself. accordingly, the reference systems seem to be concerning a means of multiplication of minds, in addition to to a strategy of "clarification" of meanings which eventually emerges as imaginative and prescient through ideas.

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The first map of the regulatory protein docking sites on the human genome as obtained in the frame of ENCODE Project reveals the dictionary of DNA words and permits a first sketch of the genome’s programming language. There is an enormous variety of features that contribute to gene regulation. Every cell type uses different combination and permutation of these features to generate and “individuate” in a self-organizing way its unique biology. In this context, we need to not only individuate the secret reason of the orchestration put in place, but also to participate in it: we have to be actors and spectators at the same time as advocated by Prigogine.

Hence the necessity of recognizing at the level of DNA transcription and related procedures, the existence of a general metascheme in action concerning the progressive unfolding of a true editing process as well as of a precise self-modulation activity. The work performed by means of the alternative splicing constitutes one of the essential threads of this very activity. Utilizing a metaphor, we could say that it is actually Marsyas as architect (and craftsman) who modulates the inner “sense” of the Via, helping thus in following this very sense along its secret paths: he works for his “resurrection”, but for the Other and in the Other, also exploiting the story-telling of the resurrection itself along the sweep of his artwork.

Utilizing a metaphor, we could say that it is actually Marsyas as architect (and craftsman) who modulates the inner “sense” of the Via, helping thus in following this very sense along its secret paths: he works for his “resurrection”, but for the Other and in the Other, also exploiting the story-telling of the resurrection itself along the sweep of his artwork. On the one hand, we have a sensory (and computational) system that evolves and self-organizes by means of the realization of specific computations and assimilations as performed at the membrane level, on the other hand we have, on the contrary, the individuation-invention of intended schemes of programs, the individuation, in particular, of specific grids relative to different transcription complexes each with a different blend of proteins.

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