{"updated":"2026-11-04T19:51:00Z","content_md":"Protocolization as a cognitive primitve\n\n![[5ndt2fvvvbkz5dt84pa4rzqrqp]]\n\n![[66xe89ff3pm0ts67vppajq88ee]]\n\n![[24yz3rtrzrsspqnq5png700zhq]]\n\n![[00f492xchy1dffd8q1y22kstya]]\n\n![[6fzs9tczf4hrbttz69tmdc4d0j]]","changelog":[{"version":1,"at":"2026-10-31T18:39:04Z","note":null},{"version":2,"at":"2026-11-04T19:03:05Z","note":null},{"version":3,"at":"2026-11-04T19:51:00Z","note":null}],"transclusions":[{"id":"5ndt2fvvvbkz5dt84pa4rzqrqp","version":2},{"id":"66xe89ff3pm0ts67vppajq88ee","version":1},{"id":"24yz3rtrzrsspqnq5png700zhq","version":1},{"id":"00f492xchy1dffd8q1y22kstya","version":1},{"id":"6fzs9tczf4hrbttz69tmdc4d0j","version":2}],"created":"2026-10-31T18:39:04Z","page":"f\/60y3x93w87v2fav6pjskjq8r0a\/","content_hash":"sha256:c1657cfe892147129f574ce3d7d6fcfe378c6c874919b30275e447f0de6bc828","id":"60y3x93w87v2fav6pjskjq8r0a","kind":"thread","origin":"https:\/\/ammdi.hyperphor.com\/blyg\/","content_html":"<div><div><div class=\"blyg-title\">Protocolization as a cognitive primitve <\/div><\/div><blockquote class=\"blyg-transclusion\" data-blyg-id=\"5ndt2fvvvbkz5dt84pa4rzqrqp\" data-blyg-version=\"2\"><div><span>That is: reifying episodes of experience and discovering and re-enacting patterns of interaction is what minds do, down at the most basic level. Some elevated thinkers like to say that we are composed of stories, which isn&apos;t wrong, but stories are mere fictions, protocols are what we actually do, our real-world habits and <a class=\"pagelink\" href=\"https:\/\/ammdi.hyperphor.com\/Phil-Agre\">routines<\/a>.<\/span><\/div><\/blockquote><blockquote class=\"blyg-transclusion\" data-blyg-id=\"66xe89ff3pm0ts67vppajq88ee\" data-blyg-version=\"1\"><div>This might explain why the idea of protocols seems so powerful.<\/div><\/blockquote><blockquote class=\"blyg-transclusion\" data-blyg-id=\"24yz3rtrzrsspqnq5png700zhq\" data-blyg-version=\"1\"><div>Bur it wasn&apos;t protocols so much as their formation (protocolization) that seems to be the kind of building block you could use to construct minds. A powerful and general learning mechanism. Something that could underlie both motor learning (where it had to have originated) and higher-level patterns<\/div><\/blockquote><blockquote class=\"blyg-transclusion\" data-blyg-id=\"00f492xchy1dffd8q1y22kstya\" data-blyg-version=\"1\"><div><span>Note: this concept of a protocol might be out of sync with Venkat&apos;s vision of <a class=\"pagelink\" href=\"https:\/\/ammdi.hyperphor.com\/New-Nature\">New Nature<\/a>. I seem to be more interested in protocolish things in old nature<\/span><\/div><\/blockquote><blockquote class=\"blyg-transclusion\" data-blyg-id=\"6fzs9tczf4hrbttz69tmdc4d0j\" data-blyg-version=\"2\"><div><div>This is part of my ongoing series, once every ten years I emit one of these:<\/div><ul class=\"blyg-children\"><li><div><span><a class=\"pagelink\" href=\"https:\/\/ammdi.hyperphor.com\/Emotion-and-the-Dynamics-of-Representation-Use\">Emotion and the Dynamics of Representation Use<\/a> (Media Lab)<\/span><\/div><\/li><li><div><span><a class=\"pagelink\" href=\"https:\/\/ammdi.hyperphor.com\/Play-as-a-Cognitive-Primitive\">Play as a Cognitive Primitive<\/a> (Refactor Camp 2015)<\/span><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/blockquote><\/div>","version":3,"media":[],"blyg":"0.3"}