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A revised attack on computational ontology

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posted on 2024-11-15, 06:24 authored by Nir Fresco, Phillip J Staines
There has been an ongoing conflict regarding whether reality is fundamentally digital or analogue. Recently, Floridi has argued that this dichotomy is misapplied. For any attempt to analyse noumenal reality independently of any level of abstraction at which the analysis is conducted is mistaken. In the pars destruens of this paper, we argue that Floridi does not establish that it is only levels of abstraction that are analogue or digital, rather than noumenal reality. In the pars construens of this paper, we reject a classification of noumenal reality as a deterministic discrete computational system. We show, based on considerations from classical physics, why a deterministic computational view of the universe faces problems (e.g., a reversible computational universe cannot be strictly deterministic).

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Fresco, N. & Staines, P. J. (2014). A revised attack on computational ontology. Minds and Machines: journal for artificial intelligence, philosophy and cognitive sciences, 24 (1), 101-122.

Journal title

Minds and Machines

Volume

24

Issue

1

Pagination

101-122

Language

English

RIS ID

84954

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