Misunderstood Circular Causation: “Who Implements Autonomy?” and “What Stabilises the Daisies?”

Constructivist Foundations 13 (3):374-376 (2018)
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Open peer commentary on the article “What Is a Cognizing Subject? Construction, Autonomy and Original Causation” by Niall Palfreyman & Janice Miller-Young. Upshot: When a phenomenon, or a concept such as autonomy, is the outcome of circular causality then analysis in terms of linear causation is a recipe for misunderstanding. The Daisyworld parable as used here is an ideal testbed to illustrate such resulting confusions.

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