Regarding chunking: a background assumption for me is that the causal structure of the world yields a natural chunking, with each chunk taking up a little local “voxel” of spacetime.
Some amount spacetime-induced chunking is “forced upon” an embedded agent, in some sense, since their sensors and actuators are localized in spacetime.
Now, there’s still degrees of freedom in taking more or less coarse-grained chunkings, and more or less coarse-graining differentially along different spacetime directions or in different places. But I expect that spacetime locality mostly nails down what we need as a starting point for convergent chunking.
Regarding chunking: a background assumption for me is that the causal structure of the world yields a natural chunking, with each chunk taking up a little local “voxel” of spacetime.
Some amount spacetime-induced chunking is “forced upon” an embedded agent, in some sense, since their sensors and actuators are localized in spacetime.
Now, there’s still degrees of freedom in taking more or less coarse-grained chunkings, and more or less coarse-graining differentially along different spacetime directions or in different places. But I expect that spacetime locality mostly nails down what we need as a starting point for convergent chunking.