Wandering Towards a Goal: How Can Mindless Mathematical Laws Give Rise to Aims and Intention? (repost)
Wandering Towards a Goal: How Can Mindless Mathematical Laws Give Rise to Aims and Intention? by Anthony Aguirre
English | PDF | 2018 | 251 Pages | ISBN : 3319757253 | 8 MB
English | PDF | 2018 | 251 Pages | ISBN : 3319757253 | 8 MB
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 solve the problem? The three first-prize winners, Larissa Albantakis, Carlo Rovelli and Jochen Szangolies tackle exactly these challenges, while many other aspects (agency, the role of the observer, causality versus teleology, ghosts in the machine etc.) feature in the other award winning contributions. All contributions are accessible to non-specialists