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<p>This paper augments Mark Bickhard’s interactivist model by incorporating mechanistic explanation, computation, and a non-encodingist correspondence. It argues for a mechanistic framework (drawing on the new mechanism’s focus on organized entities and activities) that preserves core interactivist principles: process ontology, representation as emergent from interaction, rejection of encodingism, and the centrality of system-detectable error. However, grounding representational normativity solely in action outcomes or self-maintenance faces limitations. This paper proposes instead that normativity arises from epistemic norms within cognitive problem-solving, encompassing alethic, pragmatic, and economic dimensions addressed through bounded rationality under functional constraints. A novel framework integrating interactivism with this mechanistic view, computation, and infocorrespondence (a specific, non-encodingist correspondence based on information channels)&#xa0;is developed. This framework emphasizes semantic information processed by computational mechanisms, with inconsistency detection between information vehicles (leveraging informational redundancy) serving as a key system-accessible proxy for representational error (falsity). This synthesis offers a more robust account of error detection, the truth-success relationship, and the grounding of epistemic normativity, thereby enriching interactivist theory.</p>

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Interactivism mechanized: bridging the gap between cognition, correspondence, and computation

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    2025年6月20日

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  • Marcin Miłkowski

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This paper augments Mark Bickhard’s interactivist model by incorporating mechanistic explanation, computation, and a non-encodingist correspondence. It argues for a mechanistic framework (drawing on the new mechanism’s focus on organized entities and activities) that preserves core interactivist principles: process ontology, representation as emergent from interaction, rejection of encodingism, and the centrality of system-detectable error. However, grounding representational normativity solely in action outcomes or self-maintenance faces limitations. This paper proposes instead that normativity arises from epistemic norms within cognitive problem-solving, encompassing alethic, pragmatic, and economic dimensions addressed through bounded rationality under functional constraints. A novel framework integrating interactivism with this mechanistic view, computation, and infocorrespondence (a specific, non-encodingist correspondence based on information channels) is developed. This framework emphasizes semantic information processed by computational mechanisms, with inconsistency detection between information vehicles (leveraging informational redundancy) serving as a key system-accessible proxy for representational error (falsity). This synthesis offers a more robust account of error detection, the truth-success relationship, and the grounding of epistemic normativity, thereby enriching interactivist theory.