Essentia Mundi A.I.

presents

"Symbols Framework"

Researching the possibility of how to make machines think in a human like way. That drove me to re-consider many of the assumed views about life and consciousness in general that came on a more than two decades of thinking movement, keeping an agnostic stance. Movement came mainly from understanding Wittgenstein's positions on language, meaning, logic, mathematics, etc. All this seem it landed me on a framework that in turn seems able to offer a new level of understanding of Wittgenstein's main ideas, and as a consequence a conciliation of many issues, and offering many answers to questions outside the initial purpose.

C. Stefan, Thesis-Paper: "Life, the Observer, and Consciousness"↗

Selected articles:
C. Stefan "The Basin of the Symbol: from a Structural allowance to an open Cohesiveness..." ↗
C. Stefan "A Symbol's arc: from an informed basin to Utterance." ↗
C. Stefan "Embracing Wittgenstein's Nonsense." ↗
C. Stefan "Why NLP is hard to encapsulate." ↗
C. Stefan "The better language engineering approach. The Sphere. The substrata of language." ↗
C. Stefan "Do we create a model of the World? Are we endowed with one?" ↗
C. Stefan "Normative reasoning. Moral supervenience. Engineering moral AGI." ↗
C. Stefan "The World as the Totality of Symbols." ↗
C. Stefan "Language and the Actions into which it is Woven. Bridging the Tractatus with Philosophical Investigations." ↗

Co-author:
"Developing Credible Agents for Captology" (International NAISO Congress, ISI'2001, Conference Paper)
"Implementing Ethical Aspects in Agents for Medical Applications" (23rd National Conference on Medical Informatics, MEDINF 2000, laşi, Conference Paper)

The documenting of "thinking movement/Denkbewegung" along the concepts in bio ↗ and legacy pages ↗.

After a touring of more than two decades through philosophy, science, computing and art aesthetics, I came with my own ontology and methods to tackle the most important questions I identified along the way.
There was no other way than the hard way, yet not how one would imagine.

Once seeding along the way, through a "Denkbewegung" (thinking movement) there were identified new concepts. The process then unfolds naturally, and, as the Symbols Framework itself seems to imply, the formation of new Symbols happened without any conscious, frontal thinking and a firm stance of doing it explicitly.

From that it was natural to have new concepts like the "Symbol" and the "Symboliad".

The inspiration is not what it seems. In the process of seeding one is marking some areal where new Symbols may emerge. The bits of inspiration, as from the Symbols Framework, the moments of insights are caused by the emerged Symbols themselves. And that proves indeed that we are much operated by them, and they would sit behind a common language. They act like a veil.

In short, from the Symbols Framework, one can better asses many things. It can tackle things like how life functions, what consciousness may be and how it seems to be working, how society in general seem to operate. And also it implies a general working mechanism that would make us able to tackle also things like conflict, free will, AI development and Gaia as entity.

The ideas revolve around newly devised or re-vised concepts like: Symbol, frame of reference, instances, life forms, observers, atomic patches of meaning, consciousness, environment and to organisms and colony drive mechanisms. It is put together into the Symbols Framework.

It is concluded in a general thesis paper from which new research would develop.

It is a framework, meaning it gathers more assumptions, forming an ontology through which an explanation for various conjectures within the framework are being developed and justified, in a scientific way. It may be a falsifiable theory (eg. in the front of others looking for deeper meaning like quantum, or forces far outside Gaia, or stictly mathematically provable (scale-free)), but in itself, as in any "externsion" it of course tries to maintain an assumed core and a belt and expect to further test or disprove the statements through observation or experiment.

On the other hand, within the Zeitgeist for the medium of science is to be embraced in a form of relaxed "causal nexus," and a more holistic and integrative view is to be maybe taken into consideration. A scientific demarcation seen through the many lens out there, to many realities we make, acknowledge the boundaries in sciences, that would in turn enact new meaning, and not for fixing things forever, see along the history, the confounding of "isms", and even taking the "language as the only knowable reality" (L. Wittgenstein) as a boundary.

Thus regarding the scientific demarcation in relation to an epistemological flexibility in the sense of broadening the view, as the framework itself employs:

1. It encourages integration with various philosophical traditions and practices.
2. It promotes a holistic view of knowledge and existence; values personal and cultural differences.
3. Emphasizes Empathy and relational ethics through study of the Symbols, and then chooses an appropriate engagement among parties.
4. Acknowledge the Symbols are interconnected and influence understanding and meaning in a powerful way and that they represent the meaning of drive of cultures and of the many kinds of minds out there (including the other forms of life.)
5. The nature of truth, in a scientific sense, is dynamic and relational and it emerges always through "oracles" and the interactions between Symbols. At the same time nothing is in isolation.
6. And as instances we should see the power of making all functional around us, and try see the problems also from the perspective of if "should we?"
7. The practice of transparency in scientific endeavor, by seeing through Symbols: see the planting of the seeds along and tracing of a "Denkbewegung" as being the main and the true rich parts one can further explore and not by building in the final "truths" of a writing.
8. The only time we can prove we have a trace of intelligent behavior, is to see the whole and see how we can take the helm. As we are modeling ourselves and we model our space, so modeling of solutions is through integrative, interdisciplinary, horizontal and unitary approach towards the general processes and thus Gaia as itself operating in similar ways too.
9. Thus the validity of a scientific theory would be upgraded and based on coherence, resonance, and the practical applicability at the Gaia scale.
10. Remembering us that what we do most of the time, especially in long endeavors, is ultimately a form of practicing art and expression.


the flexibility in the scientific demarcation can be then shifted in terms of Symbolosophy. Towards a more integrative wisdom, art, science, acknowledging a soft volition medium that comes from many directions, as well as the dynamic nature of reaching "truths", all under a holistic coherence mean in a resonance within the ecological.

The development as a framework although came a long way, was put "on paper" during 2023-2024 (legacy here). It will continue development in a more formalizing way of the concepts beginning with the thesis.

Working assumptions range from life at the intersection of matter and energy as "life matter," to the biased observer views, to generativity potentials within systems, to ways to measure soft but powerful spaces.

All within the frame of reference of the observers like us.

Legacy (meaning the original text as part of "Denkbewegung", exploratory, not revised notes) view:
"Life is an "emergence" but as it appears to us now.
It looks like the emergence effect, to next level of independent generative platform, happens at different scales (physical and abstract) once a complexity index is achieved. "AGI" is to be achieved when the new generative platform is allowing it to emerge. We currently develop the new layer that will generate something new, for "AGI" to be achieved would take at least a new socio-tech stack generation to pass.
Life emergence was a long ongoing process. Cell is a state of equilibrium. Environment is agent's up-bringer. Alive looks a too "overrated" concept to me. Using caution when saying "alive agent." It's primary properties just are. The analogy of the water drop, or a bubble. We are physical instances of the environment, more of that, endowed with properties of the Universe's constrains. Agents are endowed at least with the Universes properties. Agents at the minimum is what we describe by observing. Observing is close to a named "consciousness" state. Consciousness is the biased self referentiality of the observer. Not to be formalized for itself, but maybe for the other systems (AGI=H-LI). Also this is a long ongoing feature - not an emergence, as it seems to us , in the now. Once something is described, it is part of the culture. One cell (mind) is more powerful for single tasks than more cells (minds) unless there is a strong motive to operate otherwise, in groups (networks)." ↗

Since 2023 the ideas of the framework began to take form and put into words. More concepts have been devised so far and here a list of concepts within the epistemology and through which the ontology of the Symbols Framework forms:

Symbol: atomic unit
Symboliad: web of units
mortal basin, spark: the forming of a unit
Omniload: the web of an atomic unit
externsion: the evolving and enaction of units
externsiveness, openness, shareness: properties of unit
generativity potential: the forming thread
homeostatic arc: the alpha units
life matter: the whole physical atomic unit
form of life: the life form upgraded as form of life
human detour: drag functions and functions dragging
OPRMs: new AI powerful as multi-modal operating atomic units
moments of order: through the noise, some structures
not in the flux: the position with our glasses
void: not the concept
consciousness scaffolding: the upbringing of the units enacting new units
triangulation: the physical means of extending the arc
self-domestication: new operational imprinted "truths"
decompression-occlusion: the medium changes and change the medium effects
cardinal of the Symboliad: quantifying atomic units within life forms withing niche
frame of reference: the object of study is within reach
observer (bias): the illusion in the way
(own)environment-agent: blurring of medium agent spaces
naturalizing intent and logic...: the actions within web
conciliation of language acquisition: the levels of actions
language productivity: the exhaustion of formal dimensions
"real" real: separate, yet into the web
life-cycle conjecture: the efficiency play between imprinting environment and life form
new language of Symbols: new view of Empathy, to tackle conflict and resources at Gaia scale
Gaia as system: the differentials at scale
cones in Symboliad: from phenomenological to formalism yet not fixed but new units emergence
knowledge boundary: no phenomenological meaning left
causal nexus: naturalized through more concrete units within Omniloads
soft space: means of arcs and plateaus through generativity
"detached" area: from spark to new plateaus
Eastern-Western views: through views of knowledge-wisdom, different representations, kinds of minds
scratching-fixing: the doing always doing drive
differential: the change in some pattern
justifying a brain: generativity plateau of other plateaus, from strong to weak supervenience
imprinting: strong units as new features
colony: where the shared web dwells
instance: through the life-cycle, imprinting, re-fitted to environment arc
sensorymenal: sensory(neuro) to phenomenology general spectrum where arc(s) builds
symbolosophy: the new way of scientific demarcation, enacted within the Symbols Framework
"Denkbewegung": the documenting of the thoughts that lead to the insights as part of the (scientific) writing
inertia: waves still propagate within the arcs
orthogonal: the space outside flow
Matrix: the constant flow, life as a dream

Explainability of and through the framework: the conventional through the framework's lens.
With this new website (v0.3) the intention is to capture and express the concepts developed so far in a conventional way. Through the lens of the framework, the scholarly terms would be also revisited and reinterpreted in order to provide a bridge between conventional and the original terms developed so far (where possible.) Apply the principles in an academic explanation and connect further with other scientific areas as in an interdisciplinary way, to connect it out there.