Description: Wandering Towards a Goal Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). How Can Mindless Mathematical Laws Give Rise to Aims and Intention? Author(s): Anthony Aguirre, Brendan Foster, Zeeya Merali Format: Hardback Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG, Switzerland Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG ISBN-13: 9783319757254, 978-3319757254 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 [url] 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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Book Title: Wandering Towards a Goal
Number of Pages: 254 Pages
Publication Name: Wandering Towards a Goal: How Can Mindless Mathematical Laws Give Rise to Aims and Intention?
Language: English
Publisher: Springer International Publishing A&G
Item Height: 235 mm
Subject: Science
Publication Year: 2018
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 565 g
Author: Brendan Foster, Anthony Aguirre, Zeeya Merali
Item Width: 155 mm
Series: The Frontiers Collection
Format: Hardcover
