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First day of the seminar. It presents the TAME-quintuple framework and its five components —states, operators, constraints, goal and temporal horizon— and the difference between a collective and an aggregate of parts.
Benefits
Describe any case with the five components of the framework
Recognise whether a system keeps its machinery and at what point its information has degraded
Identify the goal a system defends and the horizon with which it anticipates
Tell an inactive permission from a damaged effector, and choose the approach that corresponds
Assess when a set of parts acts as a single agent
Session
The five components of a multiscale control system
A system can keep all of its parts intact and still stop solving the problem it exists for. The session introduces the TAME-quintuple framework, which describes any regulated system —a cell, an organ or a person— through five components, and locates the failure in the available information rather than in the machinery.
A paradigm shift in approaching complex problems: preserved machinery and degraded information as a failure profile
States and operators: reachable configurations and the actions available to move between them
Distinguishing state from goal: assignment criteria and frequent errors in identifying them
Applying the formalism across scales: the same failure profile at the cellular, organ and behavioural levels
Session
Regulation as a state-dependent constraint
An effector can respond to a signal in one state and not respond to the same signal in another, without any damage involved. The session examines permissive signals —those that produce no effect of their own but enable the effect of others— and their diagnostic implications.
Functional versus rigidified constraint: criteria for telling them apart, and reversibility
Operator cost and constraint: what a reduced response reveals compared with an absent one
Conjunction of permissions: effectors that require two concurrent enabling signals
Differential diagnosis between an inactive permission and a damaged effector, and why the therapeutic approach is reversed
Capacity for rewriting: how the system’s trajectory changes what it is still permitted to do
Session
What the system pursues and how far ahead it anticipates
A system cannot be asked what it pursues, but it can be observed: the value it actively returns to after being displaced is its goal. The session covers how that goal is identified and how the horizon with which the system anticipates is estimated.
Counter-regulation as the signature of the goal
Point goal and relational goal
Temporal horizon: anticipation and recovery
Horizon collapse and its markers
The cognitive cone: spatial reach and temporal depth
Session
What distinguishes a collective from an aggregate
A set of parts can behave as a single agent or as a simple sum, and the difference is measurable. The session distinguishes agency from efficiency, examines what makes a collective perform better than the sum of its parts, and what can be observed when that gain is lost.
Agency: attribution criteria, independent of the substrate
Efficiency: competence measured as gain over an uninformed search
Superadditivity: what distinguishes a collective from an aggregate of parts
Mechanisms that generate superadditivity
Loss of superadditivity: dissolution of the collective as a single agent
Venue
Hotel Galería Plaza Reforma, Mexico City
Hours
10:00 to 18:00
Format
In person and online, with live streaming
Fees
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Enquiries
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Diverse Cognition 2026