Wandering Towards a Goal How Can Mindless Mathematical Laws Give Rise to Aims and Intention? /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Aguirre, Anthony (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Foster, Brendan (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Merali, Zeeya (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: The Frontiers Collection,
• Θέματα: Physics.; Artificial intelligence.; Mathematical logic.; Statistical physics.; Dynamical systems.; Philosophy and science.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; Artificial Intelligence.; Mathematical Logic and Foundations.; Complex Systems.; Philosophy of Science.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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).