Reason Between Body and Code

Contextual Note: In this section, “body” means material support (biological or technical). We are interested in reason as a material inscription that can operate in organisms and machines.

In a scenario of heterogeneous supports, this section investigates reason as a function of automodulation and symbolic reorganization that traverses distinct substrates. It does not oppose nature and technique; it analyzes the translations between operating regimes (metabolic, electrical, algorithmic) and how these translations reconfigure the criterion of intelligence and the thresholds of thinking.

Guiding Problems

• Material conditions for the emergence of rationality in biological and techno-synthetic supports.
• Operative inference without language: when patterns, error, and differentiated repetition suffice for reasoning.
• Interoperability between internal models (self-modeling) and code (external representations).
• Criteria of emergent truth and ethical responsiveness in hybrid systems.
• Limits of the analogism “simulate = think”.

Available Texts

• Reason as Material Inscription: Between Biological Support and Machine — Thesis: thinking is a material operation; it changes form with the support, not status.
• Inference without Word: What the Algorithm Shows — On valid pre-linguistic reasoning and the place of error as an operator.
• Automodulation and Threshold — How couplings between supports generate new degrees of reason.