Meaning creation and modeling field theory

We study the development of the discriminatory capacity (i.e., the ability to develop a concept or categorize each object in the environment) of a single organism using two distinct approaches, namely, discriminatory trees and modeling field theory (MFT). In particular, we consider a simple world composed of objects that are characterized by real-valued features, similar to that used in seminal works on meaning creation. Within that framework, we demonstrate in a series of didactic experiments the potential of the MFT approach as a truly autonomous (as opposed to discrimination trees) mechanism for meaning generation.