Some here might like finitism or ultrafinitism. Wikipedia has a page, and there's a more technical intro here: nlab. The following is about an extreme...
You might like Max Tegmark's idea that "All possible mathematical structures have a physical existence, and collectively, give a multiverse that subsu...
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie, This seems to me to be the `real' zombie argument, about another world, or another universe. ...
No, I do not mean physicalism. I'm saying that all behaviour, including language, can be predicted from physics. That is compatible with physicalism, ...
'...physics' was short for physics, chemistry, abiogenesis, biology, evolution, and so on. There are scientific theories of how language developed in ...
I wouldn't put it like that. I see it as a thought experiment which can clarify how much science someone accepts. It hasn't worked with @"Patterner" y...
Do you believe the 'something else' affects behaviour in a way that disagrees with predictions from physics? If so, why haven't scientists noticed any...
Here are some definitions inspired by reinforcement learning (an approach to AI). Pleasure is the rewards that you receive from time to time from the ...
Scientists like Sean Carroll believe that consciousness is weakly emergent, and you only seem to have an argument from incredulity against them. https...
A couple of things you may be missing. First, evolution is more than natural selection. A neutral trait may go to fixation in a population by genetic ...
Alleles (variants of DNA sequences) can go to fixation (every individual in a population gets the same allele) in various ways. 1. Genetic drift. This...
Thanks. I was expecting a philosophical not a biological answer (eg a definition of what memory means to some philosophers). I knew about the enteric ...
It might reduce or increase the number of computations required - that would depend on many details. Perhaps it doesn't matter to you that the computa...
Mathematician here. I think you're getting into trouble (in an interesting way). If the model is a discrete time Markov chain determined by a matrix P...
But experience is subjective. Natural selection can only act on morphology and behaviour. ("Natural selection can hear you scream but it cannot feel y...
Thank you for the reference to the article. They manage to describe in a few pages what Thompson fails to decribe in many. The enactive approach still...
I am a mathematician, and have worked in machine learning and (the maths of) evolutionary biology. From a distance, an enactivist approach seems attra...
I agree with you that we have to give meaning to machines. But not at the level you suggest (assigning 0 or a 1 to a voltage range), because it wouldn...
This is basically an answer to your first question, which maybe makes an answer to the second uninteresting. I am a mathematician and programmer. I've...
For me, the hard problem of consciousness is about feelings. Feelings are physical pains and pleasures, and emotions, though when I say emotions, I on...
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