ontum = a unit of ontology
Using a PCT lens, each of my perceptual control systems is responsible for perceiving & regulating exactly one ontum, and the set of all such onta in my system *is* my ontology.
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this is an interesting idea, but I don't understand how the example onta you've listed are atomic. couldn't you infinitely regress each ontum into a constituent set?
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or is the point that onta can be fractal?
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think of each one as something like a node in a neural network. the network is finite, if very possibly very deep
I kind of get it? from malcolm’s description it seems like an ontum is defined recursively as:
1. a base percept (e.g light frequency range of a cone cell in the eye)
2. a set of onta (e.g pink = {red, blue, no green})
is this right?
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yeah, if we just assume the PCT model, then the lowest level onta are all single sensory cells (though this might include senses we don't know about) or muscle or endocrine actuation cells
and the higher onta are combinations of lower, sometimes linear, sometimes more complex
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