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000843350 24500 $$aWandering towards a goal :$$bhow can mindless mathematical laws give rise to aims and intention? /$$cAnthony Aguirre, Brendan Foster, Zeeya Merali, editors.
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000843350 4901_ $$aThe frontiers collection
000843350 5050_ $$aIntro; Preface; Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 A Tale of Two Animats: What Does It Take to Have Goals?; 2.1 Prequel; 2.2 Introduction; 2.3 Perfect Fitness-Goal Achieved?; 2.4 Intrinsic Information; 2.5 To Be or Not to Be Integrated; 2.6 Advantages of Being Integrated; 2.7 Conclusion; References; 3 Meaning and Intentionality = Information + Evolution; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Relative Information; 3.3 Survival Advantage and Purpose; 3.4 Kolchinsky-Wolpert's Model and Meaningful Information; 3.5 Signals, Reduction and Modality; References
000843350 5058_ $$a4 Von Neumann Minds: A Toy Model of Meaning in a Natural World4.1 Introduction; 4.2 The Homunculus in Locke's `Camera Obscura'; 4.3 Von Neumann Replicators; 4.4 Evolving Meaning; 4.5 Conclusion; References; 5 Origin Gaps and the Eternal Sunshine of the Second-Order Pendulum; 5.1 The Mathematics of the Gap; 5.2 The Physics of the Gap; 5.3 Learning from the Gaps; 5.4 Afterword: The Economics of Physical Law; 5.5 A Conversation with John Bova, Dresden Craig, and Paul Livingston; References; 6 Agent Above, Atom Below: How Agents Causally Emerge from Their Underlying Microphysics
000843350 5058_ $$a6.1 Agents Excluded6.2 Causal Emergence; 6.3 Agents and the Scale of Identity; 6.4 Teleology as Breaks in the Internal Causal Chain; 6.5 Agents Retained; Appendix A. Technical Endnotes; References; 7 Bio from Bit; 7.1 Knowledge as Information with Causal Power; 7.2 Macrostates Matter to Matter; 7.3 More Is Not Just Different, It Is Causal; 7.4 Life as 'Non-trivial' Trajectories; References; 8 I Think, Therefore I Think You Think I Am; 8.1 The Big, Bad Question; 8.2 The Goal; 8.3 Clues from Evolution; 8.3.1 Terminology; 8.4 Four Levels of Awareness; 8.5 Learning from that; 8.6 Self-check
000843350 5058_ $$a8.7 Goals, Purpose, and Free WillAppendix; 9 World Without World: Observer-Dependent Physics; References; 10 The Role of the Observer in Goal-Directed Behavior; References; 11 Wandering Towards Physics: Participatory Realism and the Co-Emergence of Lawfulness; 12 God's Dice and Einstein's Solids; 12.1 Process and Chance; 12.2 God's Dice; 12.3 Einstein's Solids; 12.4 Process and Free Will; 12.5 Boundary Conditions; 12.6 Conclusion; References; 13 Finding Structure in Science and Mathematics; 13.1 The Laws of Nature that We Find; 13.2 A Hierarchy of Number Systems
000843350 5058_ $$a13.3 The Laws of Mathematics that We Find13.4 Working in Tandem and Moving Forward; References; 14 From Athena to AI: The Past and Future of Intention in Nature; 14.1 Prologue: Gods, Water, Fire; 14.2 How Aims and Intention Arise from Mindless Matter; 14.3 Conclusion: Hyperobjects and the Retreat of Logos; 15 No Ghost in the Machine; 15.1 Introduction; 15.2 Physics, Mathematical Determinism, and the Illusion of Control; 15.3 Biology, Evolution, and the Illusion of Design; 15.4 Psychology, Cognition, and the Illusion of Agency; 15.5 Computation, Neural Nets, and the Illusion of Intelligence
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000843350 520__ $$aThis 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 winning essays, by 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.) put in an appearance in the other award winning contributions. These seventeen imaginative, stimulating and often entertaining essays are enhanced versions of the prize-winning entries to the FQXi essay competition in 2017. The Foundational Questions Institute, FQXi, catalyzes, supports, and disseminates research on questions at the foundations of physics and cosmology, particularly new frontiers and innovative ideas integral to a deep understanding of reality, but unlikely to be supported by conventional funding sources.
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000843350 7001_ $$aMerali, Zeeya.
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