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Position that all phenomena can be fully captured as discrete and finite state transitions; grounded in mathematical constructivism
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Thinkers (7)
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- Martin HeideggercontradictsPhilosopher whose distinction between poiesis and modern technology (Gestell/enframing) grounds the paper's ethics framework.
- Roger PenrosecontradictsMathematical physicist who wrote a foreword to a combined reprint of Schrödinger's works.
- Stephen WolframstudiesOriginator of Wolfram physics and causal graph framework.
- John SearlecontradictsPhilosopher whose work on speech acts and intentionality McCarthy references; McCarthy discusses Searle's position on machine beliefs and promises.
- Alva NoëcontradictsEnactivist philosopher whose work on action and perception is discussed in relation to CIMC's approach
- Shaun Gallaghercontradicts
- Maurice Merleau-PontycontradictsArgued phenomenology resists formalization; cited as anti-computationalist
Concepts (3)
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- Church-Turing ThesissupportsEstablishes that all constructive formalizations of computation are equivalent; grounds the claim that consciousness can be realized on any universal computing substrate
- Mathematical ConstructivismsupportsPosition that our access to reality consists in manipulation of models; grounds computationalism in CIMC's framework
- One current foundational theory project at CIMC aimed at grounding epistemology and metaphysics
Claims (1)
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- Paper's interpretation of Gödel's incompleteness result as motivating computationalism
Frameworks (3)
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- Computational Functionalismextendsrelated_toHypothesis that some class of computations suffices for consciousness; central assumption for AI consciousness route.
- Computationalist Functionalismextendsrelated_toCombined epistemological stance that everything knowable about systems including consciousness is a function of observable behaviors of finite state machines
- Wolfram's principle that systems above a low threshold of complexity are computationally equivalent, supporting substrate independence of consciousness
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- Companion document to this whitepaper providing fuller treatment of computationalism arguments and computational functionalism
Related by similarity (8)
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- Core theoretical framework: consciousness requires hybrid (discrete + continuous), scale-inseparable, metabolically embedded computation distinct from von Neumann architecture.
- Epistemological position that what any phenomenon is is its causal/operational role; rejects hidden essence; foundational to CIMC's stance
- Crutchfield's framework inferring minimal causal models from stochastic processes; causal states and transition matrices.
- Assumption that implementing the right computations is necessary and sufficient for consciousness.
- The hypothesis that physics defines a causally closed mechanistic lowest level of nature, and everything observable is coarse-grained patterns in this physical reality
- Central framework proposing intelligence resides in organization of relationships between components, not in individual parts; used to unify individual and collective intelligence.
- Searle and Seth's position that consciousness requires specific biological/autopoietic processes; explicitly rejected by CIMC on functionalist grounds
- Framework by Sandved Smith et al. (2021) formalizing hierarchy from perception to meta-awareness; grounds self_observation dimension.