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(Un)sustainable structural coupling – a testimony for snail intelligence Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Floor Schukking, Tomás Veloz González, Stefan Leijnen
The current artificial intelligence paradigm, where exponential scaling of data and computation leads to an increase in functionality and application, requires exponential demand in energy usage, data storage and raw materials for computing components. We compare this dynamic of resource dependence and depletion of AI systems to population dynamics of a snail, the symbol of the degrowth movement. Juxtaposing both phenomena as autopoietic systems ...

Chemical Organization Theory as a General Modeling Framework for Self-Sustaining Systems Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Francis Heylighen, Shima Beigi, Tomás Veloz González
This paper summarizes and reviews Chemical Organization Theory (COT), a formalism for the analysis of complex, self-organizing systems across multiple disciplines. Its elements are resources and reactions. A reaction maps a set of resources onto another set, thus representing an elementary process that transforms resources into new resources. Reaction networks self-organize into invariant subnetworks, called ‘organizations’, which are attractors ...

Entangled cognition in immersive learning experience Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Claudio Aguayo, Ronnie Videla-Reyes, Tomás Veloz González
Immersive learning environments in education provide a set of rich and diverse learning affordances (possibilities). Cognition in such environments can be considered as embodied, enacted, embedded, and extended (the 4Es of cognition). During such cognitive happenings, we assume and live as valid everything we experience. Yet in this enactive structural coupling between individuals and their experiential world, another phenomenon occurs. We ...

Catching the Big Fish Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Ronnie Videla, Tomás Veloz González, María Carolina Pino

> Context • The 4E approach proposes an alternative framework to understanding cognition and learning. However, its application to the study of creativity from new educational approaches such as STEAM is incipient. > Problem • How can the 4E approach that fosters creativity be implemented in STEAM education, through participation in technology-mediated learning ecosystems? > Method • Through face-to-face ethnographic participant ...

Random Walks on Structures, Autopoiesis and Meta-learning Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Tomás Veloz González

I discuss how random walks provide a metaphorical playground for mathematical conceptualization. In particular, I propose to extend the randomwalk metaphor, by introducing structural changes that go beyond mere changes of state. Hence, the "steps" in the walk change not only the position the system is at, but also the way in which it walks. The latter invites learners to think in constructivist concepts in a mathematical way.

Authors' Response Becoming Makers Through Continuous Practice Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Ronnie Videla, Tomás Veloz González, María Carolina Pino

We address the following three questions that summarize the concerns of commentators: (a) Is the metaphor of creativity as catching the big fish useful? (b) What is the relationship between radical constructivism and the 4E approach? (c) What do we understand by teaching from the 4E approach?

Analysing the Conjunction Fallacy as a Fact Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Tomás Veloz González, Olha Sobetska

Since the seminal paper by Tversky and Kahneman, the ‘conjunction fallacy’ has been the subject of multiple debates and become a fundamental challenge for cognitive theories in decision-making. In this chapter, we take a rather uncommon perspective on this phenomenon. Instead of trying to explain the nature or causes of the conjunction fallacy (intensional definition), we analyse its range of factual possibilities (extensional definition). We ...

A Markovian framework to study the evolution of complexity and resilience in chemical organizations Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Tomás Veloz González, Pedro Maldonado, Simon Hegele
Chemical Organization Theory (COT) is a framework to study the relation between structure and stability in reaction networks. It combines structural and stoichiometric conditions underlying self-production, and identifies a class of subnetworks on each reaction network, so-called organizations, that can be mapped to the possible limit sets that exhibit dynamical stability.

So far, organizations have been applied as a model for the ...

The complex and systemic establishment of interactions in the ecological communities. Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Tomás Veloz González, Claudio Ramirez
The central question in community ecology is explaining how species coexist in a ecological community. In this tradition,
individuals belonging to species constitute the biological unit on which observations are concentrated. Individuals produce interactions,
and the interactions depend on the individuals. Thus, the individual/population duality and the resulting interactions between these entities
are the structuring forces, and ...

Modelling Worldviews as Stable Metabolisms Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Tomás Veloz González, Pedro Maldonado

The emergence and evolution of worldviews is a complex phenomenon that requires strong and rigorous scientific attention in our hyperconnected world. On the one hand, cognitive theories have proposed reasonable frameworks but have not reached general modeling frameworks where predictions can be tested. On the other hand, machine-learning-based applications perform extremely well at predicting outcomes of worldviews, but they rely on a set of ...