Topics — What a work is about. Nucleation holds whatever reading the owner files here, whether or not an Anthology of the SOTA topic could also hold it; instruction for ML practice belongs to the anthology (ADR-048). The words are seeded from the clusters the reading-time triage of 2026-09-25 found, and grow by decision.
Embodied cognition — cognition as embodied, embedded, enacted or extended — enactivism and sense-making, coordination dynamics, situated robotics, and mind as organism–environment coupling (group: philosophy; ADR-025).
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| # | Title | Summary | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| CLAIM-157 v9 | Relative to a stated target, a combined form is one system while its joint dynamics are nearly decomposable with the form as a block whose gap beats the Occam factor, and it lasts as long as that block persists; the unit is the gap-isolated block, not any member | The record’s proposed answer to QUESTION-035, joining the dual-filed MOM results. Simon’s near-decomposability says what to compare: interaction inside a candidate block against interaction across its edge. The gap theorem says the unit is the block, and the Occam factor says when the gap is big enough to name it. Persistence is how long the block keeps clearing the threshold. It answers the owner’s “privileged nomenclature” for the dancing couple with a test. Proposed: nothing has been measured. One-way drive passes, rightly (CLAIM-167), and the direction of coupling gives the system’s architecture. | Proposed |
| CLAIM-165 v2 | A combined form constituted by mutual entrainment is not thereby a self in the subject sense: two dancers in phase are one coordination, an autonomous process, and still two subjects | The record’s own objection to CLAIM-172, narrowed in version 2 after the owner’s reply (CLAIM-175). It concedes that the dancing pair is a combined form and an autonomous process. It holds only that nothing in the coupling makes that form a subject, which ADR-024 reserves “self” for. Open: whether that is the sense of “self” worth asking about is itself in question. | Proposed |
| CLAIM-172 v10 | Mutual entrainment is a sufficient mark of a combined form, and marks it as one of peers: when each side adjusts the other’s timing the pair carries a collective variable neither has alone; one-way drive also makes a combined form, with a hierarchical architecture | The record’s reading in answer to the owner’s prompt of 2026-10-11, “connect extended self to entrainment”. Clark & Chalmers’ marks of extension are availability marks, and the coupling-constitution objection says coupling does not entail parthood. Mutual entrainment sidesteps the objection rather than answering it: it individuates a new system by its collective variable. It does not cover a passive store like Otto’s notebook, which is coupled across time by writing and reading, not by timing. | Active |
| CLAIM-173 v3 | The threshold criterion measures coupling strength, and coupling is not constitution: a metronome driving a musician, or a nerve driving a muscle, forms a strongly coupled block that clears the threshold without being one system | The record’s anticipated objection to CLAIM-157, and Adams & Aizawa’s coupling-constitution objection (LIT-455) aimed at the new criterion. Near-decomposability is about the size of couplings, not their direction. One-way drive can make a tightly coupled block. The entrainment claim excluded exactly this case. Rejected on the owner’s challenge (CLAIM-167): they should pass, and direction gives a system’s architecture, not its membership. | Rejected |
| CLAIM-175 v3 | A partner-dancing couple, while dancing, is one combined cognitive form on the extended-mind thesis’s own terms, more clearly than Otto and his notebook, and merits a name of its own | The owner’s reply of 2026-10-11 to the dancers objection, which they had not read: “under extended mind thesis, I’d argue that the pair, while dancing together, comprises a combined form that merits some privileged nomenclature of some kind”. Clark & Chalmers endorse socially extended cognition, and the objection’s own source calls the interaction an autonomous process. So the objection fails against the combined form and survives only as a question about selfhood. The name is not yet chosen. | Active |
| CLAIM-296 v2 | What a system has, what it knows it has, and what it can deploy within a task’s deadline are different, and the last is a relation among the resource, the agent, its environment, the task, the deadline and the cue, not a property of any one of them | A18’s first candidate, from the owner’s EMT case (CASE-085): the drug was stocked, the EMT knew it, and it could not be found before the medic moved on. “If I can’t find it, it isn’t there” is false of the inventory and right of the decision. TERM-055 names the relation. A19 added the cue: the same memory under a different request may retrieve it. | Active |
| CLAIM-413 v3 | Grounding is not a property of an experience but a relation among an interpretation, what it purports to be about, and a process that constrains it independently; its current, developmental and epistemic senses come apart from one another, and in the current sense it comes apart from whether the interpretation occurs, so ungrounded is not unconstrained, and what makes an interpretive organization experiential need not be what makes its contents veridical | The owner’s premise at U1, that sensory apparatus is necessary for grounded experience, as A1, A3, A5 and A7 restated it. A1: “grounding is fundamentally relational, whereas interpretation can, in principle, be internally realized.” A5, after reading CLAIM-342: “Sensory grounding may concern the independence of the constraints on interpretation, rather than the existence of interpretation itself”, and “Ungrounded ≠ Unconstrained”. A7 separated current, developmental and epistemic grounding. The epistemic sense is CLAIM-342’s, so the claim rests on it. The occurrence half is the owner’s. A7: “What makes an interpretive organization experiential is not necessarily what makes its contents veridical.” | Active |