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How Can Mindless Mathematical Laws Give Rise to Aims and Intention?
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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.
Release date Australia
June 11th, 2018
Audiences
  • Professional & Vocational
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
Contributors
  • Edited by Anthony Aguirre
  • Edited by Brendan Foster
  • Edited by Zeeya Merali
Edition
1st ed. 2018
Illustrations
46 Illustrations, black and white; VIII, 254 p. 46 illus.
Pages
254
ISBN-13
9783319757254
Product ID
27590740

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