Trashing natural selection as a special case.

So a limited model that by its nature cannot grasp the causal roots....correct?


We can assign some probabilities to the relations, like they do in marketing plans on who will buy what, but we aren't solving the Hard Problems of Consciousness and Causality?

 What does the "separate environment" refer to? Is the original environment the physical, and the separate one the mental?

The argument presented is for a methodology - where physical events and informational events can be tracked as having separate data identities.  Each operating in its own environment creating integrated, but diverging patterned relations.  The math equations spilt into two genre, each using measurements with units specified at different levels of abstraction.  Energy and mass are not like wisdom and will.

Abstractions like mass units and charge units can make the numbers come alive.  So can information channels transmitting on/off or go/stop - causing outcomes to conform to plans.  Units of measure for capability and for functional social efforts are creative and guiding and data to be collected.  Industry is actively using this data about personnel and machines..  Organization by motivation and belief has outcomes open to stats, as to performance.

It is my poor prose that clouds the issues.  This limited model and its methods do not address deep meaning at the core of things.   What is offered for consideration, is a new perspective where mindful functions, such as understanding and motivation, are quantified variables as to the outcomes they cause.  They are active factors in an informational environment.  Minds change real-world events as decisions are made.  Consciousness is tough to measure, Tononi, et all have given it a go. 

Knowledge, understanding and intelligence matter and it shows in the data.