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concept:physicalismPhysicalism
The hypothesis that physics defines a causally closed mechanistic lowest level of nature, and everything observable is coarse-grained patterns in this physical reality
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- It from BitcontradictsWheeler's thesis that all physical interaction reduces to binary information exchange; foundational to the qFEP boundary formalism
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- Scale-free substrate for cognition and consciousness proposed by Fields, Glazebrook & Levin (2021).
- The view that consciousness reduces to the physical via a posteriori identity statements; zombies are metaphysically impossible but conceptually possible.
- Patrik Schumacher’s design research program that situates parametric design systems as the logic governing all scales of the built environment.
- Epistemological position that what any phenomenon is is its causal/operational role; rejects hidden essence; foundational to CIMC's stance
- Philosophical framework emphasizing wholeness, non-reductionism, and unique emergent features of life systems.
- The view that objects can be determined by intrinsic properties bypassing observation and modeling; the position functionalism rejects
- Position that all phenomena can be fully captured as discrete and finite state transitions; grounded in mathematical constructivism
- Framework for solving inverse problems in which physical systems autonomously adapt their parameters in response to stimuli through local learning rules, without requiring computational design or explicit cost functions