This theory video is about different graphics depictions of agency that become progressively simpler and abstract and eventually connect to core cognition and lead to clear measure of cognitive success. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2dN1TKcQu4

Adaptive cycle, evolution, biosphere, rule of conservative change, coping mode, co-creation mode, consolidation This session addresses the adaptive cycle and it relation to the growth of the biosphere. The adaptive cycle underlies the way the biosphere developed through discovering sustainable building blocks that then became the foundations of more advanced processes. Some of these advanced processes are sufficiently sustainable to base even more advanced processes on. Collapses of complex systems into ever more sustainable building blocks drives this. These building blocks are then recombined in creative ways. The more successful innovations are broadly adopted, which leads to a ever more rigid system of controlled agents. When control fails the system breaks down in the (hopefully a bit more ) sustainable building blocks that comprised it. This sustainable building block discovery process allowed the biosphere to be be consolidated. The adaptive cycle is interpreted as 5 Cs: conserve, create, combine, control & collapse. The adaptive cycle drives every form of development of groups of agents. In fact it was originally formulated in the context of forest development. But it can also be applied to human and even political processes. These are then connected to previous results and illustrated by two short excerpts of speeches by politicians. References Angeler, D. G., Allen, C. R., Garmestani, A. S., Gunderson, L. H., Hjerne, O., & Winder, M. (2015). Quantifying the Adaptive Cycle. PLoS One Computational Biology, 10(12),. Ghysen, A. (2003). The origin and evolution of the nervous system. International Journal of Developmental Biology, 47, 555–562. May (2017) https://www.rt.com/politics/426048-putin-prioritizes-economic-breakthrough/ Putin (2018) https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/theresa-mays-speech-to-the-un-general-assembly-2017 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq7303uvq0U