Wandering Towards a Goal: How Can Mindless Mathematical Laws Give Rise to Aims and Intention? - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3319757253 ISBN 13 : 9783319757254

Editeur : Springer International Publishing AG, 2018

Synopsis

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.

These seventeen 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 innovativeideas integral to a deep understanding of reality, but unlikely to be supported by conventional funding sources.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer International Publishing AG
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3319757253
• ISBN 13: 9783319757254
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 262
• Éditeur: Aguirre Anthony, Foster Brendan, Merali Zeeya
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