| 书目名称 | Wandering Towards a Goal | | 副标题 | How Can Mindless Mat | | 编辑 | Anthony Aguirre,Brendan Foster,Zeeya Merali | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Published in cooperation with the renowned physics "think-tank" Foundational Questions Institute, FQXi.Specially reworked versions of the prize-winning essays from among more than 150 submissions.Cont | | 丛书名称 | The Frontiers Collection | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .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.. | | 出版日期 | Book 2018 | | 关键词 | award-winning essays; FQXi essays; goal-oriented behaviour; causality vs teleology; emergence of meaning | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75726-1 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-09310-5 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-75726-1Series ISSN 1612-3018 Series E-ISSN 2197-6619 | | issn_series | 1612-3018 | | copyright | Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018 |
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