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ANNOTATION:
reflexivity and involution
In order to clarify the non-convulsive evolution of systems, I would suggest that
Reflexivity be considered NOT to be a distinct process 'in itself' so to speak. Rather it
can be more usefully defined as the normal alogarithmic selection-combination process
operating within what I call an Involutionary state. In other words, the processes are the
same but set within a environment where the system has effectively closed itself off from
experience. (It has become 'too successful' in the ecological sense. Thus, same processes
yet the apparent results of those processes are different. In this case they are reflexive
- acting on already constructed behavioural sets - self-referencing, and leading ultimately
to fragmentation as the system goes into communicational/representational crisis and
eventual renormalization through fragmentation. The establishment of a dominant
behaviour/set/paradigm in what can be called the Developmental phase can, in certain
immortal/ultra-stable environments lead to an Involutionary phase.
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