According to #HvFoerster, the integrated functional circuit for #cognition requires these three faculties:

1️⃣ #Perception - without which the system cannot detect and internally represent environmental regularities,
2️⃣ #Memory - without which the system has only throughput (cannot learn)
3️⃣ #Prediction - or the faculty of drawing #inferences, without which perception degenerates into #sensation and memory into #recording.

Understanding Understanding: Essays on Cybernetics and Cognition - pp 105-106