A Dialogue Concerning Two World Systems: Info-Computational vs. Mechanistic

The dialogue develops arguments for and against adopting a new world system – info-computationalist naturalism – that is poised to replace the traditional mechanistic world system. We try to figure out what the info-computational paradigm would mean, in particular its pancomputationalism. We make some steps towards developing the notion of computing that is necessary here, especially in relation to traditional notions. We investigate whether pancomputationalism can possibly provide the basic causal structure to the world, whether the overall research programme appears productive and whether it can revigorate computationalism in the philosophy of mind.

• Publication year

  2009

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  arXiv.org

• Publication date

  2009-10-26

• Fields of study

  Philosophy, Computer Science

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  DOI 10.1142/9789814295482_0006arXiv 0910.5001
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