Wandering Towards a Goal How Can Mindless Mathematical Laws Give Rise to Aims and Intention? /
This collection of prize-winning essays addresses the controversial question of how meaning and goals can emerge in a physical world governed by mathematical laws. What are the prerequisites for a system to have goals? What makes a physical process into a signal? Does eliminating the homunculus solv...
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| Médium: | Elektronický zdroj E-kniha |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Springer International Publishing,
2018.
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| Vydání: | 1st ed. 2018. |
| Edice: | The Frontiers Collection,
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| ISBN: | 9783319757261 |
| ISSN: | 1612-3018 |
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Obsah:
- Introduction
- A Tale of Two Animats: What does it take to have goals? (Larissa Albantakis).- Meaning and Intentionality = Information + Evolution (Carlo Rovelli).- Von Neumann Minds: A Toy Model of Meaning in a Natural World (Jochen Szangolies).- Origin Gaps and the Eternal Sunshine of the Second-Order Pendulum (Simon DeDeo).- Agent Above, Atom Below: How agents causally emerge from their underlying microphysics (Erik P Hoel)
- Bio from Bit (Sara Imari Walker)
- I Think, Therefore I Think You Think I Am (Sophia Magnusdottir)
- World without World: Observer-Dependent Physics (Dean Rickles).- The role of the observer in goal-directed behavior (Ines Samengo)
- Wandering Towards Physics: Participatory Realism and the Co-Emergence of Lawfulness (Marc Séguin)
- God's Dice and Einstein's Solids (Ian Durham).- Finding Structure in Science and Mathematics (Noson S. Yanofsky)
- From Athena to AI: the past and future of intention in nature (Rick Searle)
- No Ghost in the Machine (Alan M. Kadin)
- The Man in a Tailcoat (Tommaso Bolognesi)
- The Tablet of the Metalaw (Cristinel Stoica)
- Wandering Towards a Goal: The Key Role of Biomolecules (George F. R. Ellis, Jonathan Kopel).