neuro0.txt

1778867012650|category: stable neuropsychical region within a representational space, whose internal relations encode potential predictive or behavioral responses.
1778867012651|representation: representational states may be coupled to structured sets of possible behavioral responses, without presupposing human-like abstract conceptualization.
1778867012652|Action Potential: An action potential is a transient, all-or-none electrical impulse that propagates along a neuron’s axon as an event-based communication pulse, enabling discrete signaling between neural elements.
1778867012653|neural manifold / state-space geometry: A low-dimensional geometric structure inferred from high-dimensional neural population activity. It is not a physical object inside the brain, but a mathematically inferred description of organization in neural activity space. The structure is formal and geometric rather than material, although it reflects constraints physically instantiated in neural dynamics.
1778867012654|Predictive structure: a physically grounded organizational regime of neural dynamics, transiently instantiated through state-dependent activity and defined by relations among possible neural and behavioral states, mathematically representable as a constrained geometry of behavioral possibilities.
1778867012655|Structural coupling is the process by which a system and its environment co-evolve through continuous interaction, becoming mutually adapted without losing their independence.
1778867012656|Enactment of a world is the process by which a living system brings forth (or “brings into being”) its own meaningful environment through its ongoing structural dynamics and interactions.
1778867012657|In Maturana & Varela, cognition does not require a neural system; it is the operational dynamics of any autopoietic living system in structural coupling with its environment. It is the ongoing enactment of a viable relation between system and environment.