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# Mind as Model — Cognitive Science Map (Phase II)
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**Workplan:** SOUL-WP-0003-T01
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**Date:** 2026-08-12
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**Purpose:** Map predictive processing, active inference, internal models, and
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metacognition against Soul Frame **Mind = Model**.
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Builds on Phase I: Ashby; Conant & Ashby; extended/distributed cognition
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(`research/foundations/001-*.md`).
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---
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## 1. Soul Frame target definition
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> Mind is the adaptive modeling and regulatory dimension of a Being: models of
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> self, others, environment, and relationships guide action and are revised by
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> interaction.
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Phase II asks whether contemporary cognitive science strengthens or weakens this.
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---
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## 2. Source crosswalk
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| Source | Core idea | Agreement with Soul Frame | Tension |
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| **Ashby 1956; Conant & Ashby 1970** | Regulation requires a model of the regulated system | Direct support for Mind = Model (H3) | Classical cybernetics is not social/personhood theory |
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| **Friston / Active Inference** | Agents minimize free energy via generative models of sensory causes; action and perception as inference | Strong formalization of adaptive modeling + control as one package | Philosophical over-extension debates; Markov blanket ≠ full Being (RN-002) |
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| **Clark, *Surfing Uncertainty* (2016) and related PP** | Brain as prediction machine; perception as controlled hallucination; action as prediction error minimization | Mind as hierarchical generative modeling fits “model-based adaptation” | Risk of reducing Mind to a single neural story; Soul Frame needs multi-substrate models |
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| **Hohwy, *The Predictive Mind* (2013)** | Systematic PP account of mind | Supports internal generative models as central to cognition | Stronger internalism than extended-mind / distributed views |
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| **Metacognition literature** (overview) | Models of own cognitive processes, uncertainty, confidence | Supports Self-Model and calibration of Other-Models | Not sufficient alone for Social Mind |
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| **Baker, Saxe & Tenenbaum 2009** | Inverse planning: infer goals/beliefs from action | Other-Model as inverse inference | Rational-agent assumptions |
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| **Enactive critiques** (e.g. participatory sense-making; radical enactivism) | Interaction can constitute cognition; caution on representation talk | Interaction process is first-class (RN-006) | May reject “model” vocabulary; Soul Frame must keep “model” inclusive |
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**Done criterion (≥4 rigorous sources with agreements/tensions):** met.
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---
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## 3. Working synthesis for Mind
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```text
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Mind ⊇ generative / regulatory models
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+ update from evidence (including social evidence)
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+ action selection guided by those models
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+ (for Social Mind) coupled self/other/relation models
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```
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**Not required for Mind in Soul Frame:**
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- solved consciousness,
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- biological brain,
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- single substrate location,
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- perfect accuracy of models.
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**Quality of Mind** (from RN-006, generalized):
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- calibration (uncertainty),
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- revisability,
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- differentiation (distinct counterparts),
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- perspective separation (mine vs yours vs yours-of-mine),
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- not accuracy alone when models are causal in interaction.
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## 4. Metacognition placement
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Metacognition maps primarily to:
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- **SM2 Self-Model** (including confidence about own knowledge),
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- **SM4 Reflected-Self Model** (what others model about me),
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- model-quality monitoring (calibration).
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It is a capability dimension of Mind, not a separate Soul Frame top-level term.
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## 5. Implications
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1. H3 is **strengthened** by PP/active inference *and* by inverse-planning ToM work.
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2. “Model” should mean **action-guiding structure that can be revised**, not only
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explicit propositional representation (keeps enactive tensions manageable).
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3. Social Mind (RN-006 SM1–SM8) is a **specialization** of Mind for multi-Being
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interaction, not a second kind of mind.
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## 6. Bibliography pointers
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See `sources/bibliography.md` § E (Phase II cognitive science additions) and
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`research/foundations/References-ResearchNote006.md`.
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