@evantthompson would the ant colony as an autopoietic system have some kind of inner world?
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Replying to @AndyFiloScience
An ant colony isn't an autopoietic system (doesn't meet the criteria) but may be autonomous. It's inside isn't a spatially bounded interior; it's territorial and behavioural
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Replying to @evantthompson
the reason for my question about ant colony is because there are studies using the colony as a test for theories of consciousness. None of the surveys, of course, used enativism.
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Replying to @AndyFiloScience @evantthompson
+ I thought that the colony met the criteria of an autopoietic system and it could be said that it as a whole has cognition.
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It meets the criteria for being autonomous, but autopoiesis strictly speaking requires self-constructed membrane-type boundary in physical-chemical space. If you're interested, I explain this difference in Mind in Life.
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