Developmental Objects

Developmental Objects are an elaboration of Periodic Objects whose periodic value is modified as a result of interaction with events. The function for this change is based on the Pattern.

Object Attributes

• Developmental Criteria - The event-reactors which model experience or learning for the object in question.
• Pending Quests - one or more incomplete quests which are necessary for advancement to the next period.

The Developmental Criteria

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The Role of Quests in Advancement

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Emotional Reaction

Developmental objects also have the property of reacting to experience with emotions. The calling context will be responsible for providing an interpretation of emotions generated by objects in its scope which are reacting to events.

What organization of the nervous system would permit continous changes in the relative activity of its anatomical components, as a result of different concomitances in their activity, and still permit the synthesis of a conduct that is defined only by the states of relative neuronal activity that it generates, and not by the components use?

— Humberto Maturana, Biology of Cognition

See Also

• The Pattern - the fractal which describes the behaviour of periodic development or change

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Further discussion

After a lengthy discussion with Ged on this subject, I have been convinced that the periodic nature of attributes and their developmental nature can be abstracted from one another. They are often related, but developmental-ness does not need to be present in every attribute which has periodicity. I also believe that periodicity is best stored in the characteristic itself rather than in the values which the characteristic has.