Microgenetic Dynamics

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        <i>Microgenetic Dynamics</i>
      
      
        . Before turning to this issue, however, I need to further extend the analysis of 
        interactional dynamics. In simple nervous systems, the interactive and regulatory dynamics 
        may be relatively fixed and resident in its entirety in the overall nervous system. 
        Details of those dynamics might be alterable via learning (destabilization and 
        restabilization), but, aside from learning, there are no changes in the interactive 
        dynamic space during interactions per se. In more complex nervous systems, however, there 
        can be multiple modes of functioning, multiple dynamics, that a given region of the 
        nervous system, or the entire system, is capable of. In such cases, part of what the 
        regulatory processes guide is the shifting from one mode of dynamic functioning to "next" 
        modes of dynamics functioning. That is, in more complex cases, the nervous system is 
        capable of multiple dynamics, and these multiple dynamics are patched together into the 
        overall dynamic space in a way that is regulated by the regulatory processes (which may 
        themselves be subject to regulation, and so on). This pluripotentiality is at base nothing 
        more mysterious or unusual than the fact that a single set of registers in a computer may 
        at one point in time be set to execute an addition, while at a later point the same 
        registers may be set to execute Boolean conjunction. Similarly, the frontal lobes of a 
        human being might at one point be focused on a problem in mathematics, while at another 
        time the same neural system might be focused on an interpersonal issue. 
      
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        What I wish to focus on in such pluripotentiality of dynamic functioning is that the 
        shifting from one mode of functioning to another, the shifting from one region of the 
        overall space of system dynamics to another region of that space, is itself a dynamic 
        process, and will have its own dynamic space. This will also be a kind of meta-dynamics, 
        but a different kind from regulatory dynamics (though they will have to "cooperate" 
        intimately). Such processes of "setting up" the current functional dynamics of the system 
        can be called processes of 
      
      
        <i>microgenesis</i>
      
      
         -- they account for the origins, the genesis, "on the fly" of the local dynamic spaces 
        that the nervous system manifests (Bickhard & Campbell, R. L., 1996; Hanlon, 1991). 
        Microgenesis, then, is a kind of dynamic process that sets up the overall dynamic system 
        to be able to engage in differing kinds of regulatory and interactive dynamics; 
        microgenesis (ongoingly) constructs the micro-conditions involved in differing kinds of 
        interactive dynamics. 
      
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        In the computer model version, microgenetic processes construct the momentary dynamics of 
        the Central Processing Unit, and then leave those dynamics to execute while the 
        microgenetic processes either wait for the next need for microgenesis, or move ahead to 
        the anticipated next needed microgenesis. A more sophisticated view of microgenesis would 
        not be restricted to this mutual independence of the microgenetic and the interactive 
        processes, but would at least recognize that nervous system interactive and regulatory 
        dynamic processes, on the one hand, and microgenetic dynamic processes, on the other hand, 
        will both be simultaneously and continuously active, with the ensuing trajectory of 
        microgenesis and dynamic space construction a result of some sort of relaxation processes 
        between the two.
      
      
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