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A computing layer above physical hardware; Sloman uses this as an analogy for mental processes not reducible to physics.
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- Layered Mechanisms (Higher-Level Control)associated_withThe idea that biological systems, especially brains, use multiple layers of control mechanisms whose functions cannot be described in the language of fundamental physics alone.
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- Theoretical construct establishing classical demarcation between machine and environment via input/output channels.
- The view that the LLM individual is the model as it runs on a single conversation, regardless of physical realization
- A philosophy-of-mind view that mental phenomena are implemented by virtual machines running on physical brains, irreducible to physics alone.
- Emerging field studying psychological properties of LLMs; the paper aims to bridge psychometric methodology with this field
- Evolutionary algorithms and self-organizing systems blur distinction between evolved and designed.
- A high-level control node (e.g., calcium pattern, resting potential) that is a complex function of many low-level components, not 1:1 mappable to genes.
- Intelligence realized in a non-organic, technological substrate, potentially free from biological constraints.