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Two rival principles of cognitive organization, the living systems principle of operational closure (autopoiesis), and the physical symbol systems hypothesis of AI, are considered in terms of a third position as complementary characterizations of the ground for intersubjectivity. A dialogic systems principle about the primary dyadic organization of mind is proposed. It permits entailments about the protodialogic patterns that may be expected from the closed operation of the human neonate and adult as one organization. Revealed patterns of mother-infant protoconversation and reciprocity are considered in light of the principle, which is a dialogic version of the principle of operational closure and proposed as complementary to an account in symbolic representational terms of the cultural and linguistic heritage which the adult brings to bear on the process.
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Bråten, S. (1988). Dialogic Mind: The Infant and the Adult in Protoconversation. In: Carvallo, M.E. (eds) Nature, Cognition and System I. Theory and Decision Library, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2991-3_9
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