Diagrams of the mind
Self Model / External Model / World Model
When thinking about cognitive systems, it is customary to invoke diagrams. It's a tradition amongst intellectuals with a deep history before science even, we make these attempts to signify the structure and aspects of what is.
Minds are organized in this way, with a self inside, a world outside and the relational experience that mediates within the middle. Whether looking at biological cells, vertebrates or social systems - these patterns of organization reoccur across scales.
Above Chris Field's uses the markov formalism to describe quantum systems. And below, Rutger Goekoop's research illustrates how these systems compose across scales into modular networks of control hubs.
This is the basic organization of the human nervous system: efferent / afferent nerves: inputs / outputs and what mediates between the internal and external? That is the content of our experience.
