2021
DOI: 10.1093/bjps/axz036
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Against Computational Perspectivalism

Abstract: Computational perspectivalism has been recently proposed as an alternative to mainstream accounts of physical computation, and especially to the teleologically-based mechanistic view. It takes physical computation to be partly dependent on explanatory perspectives, and eschews appeal to teleology in helping individuate computational systems. I assess several varieties of computational perspectivalism, showing that they either collapse into existing non-perspectival views; or end up with unsatisfactory or impla… Show more

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“…Without substantial constraints, liberality threatens. That problem can be addressed, in theories of physical computation, by appealing to constraints based on causation, function and/or mechanistic explanation (Piccinini, 2015;Coelho Mollo 2019, 2021a, 2021bShagrir, 2022). The particular challenge for the claim made in the present paper is to show that the notion of organization-use of similarity across a family of vehicles-does not face its own, more insurmountable liberality objection.…”
Section: Symbols Vs Non-symbolic Representationsmentioning
confidence: 90%
“…Without substantial constraints, liberality threatens. That problem can be addressed, in theories of physical computation, by appealing to constraints based on causation, function and/or mechanistic explanation (Piccinini, 2015;Coelho Mollo 2019, 2021a, 2021bShagrir, 2022). The particular challenge for the claim made in the present paper is to show that the notion of organization-use of similarity across a family of vehicles-does not face its own, more insurmountable liberality objection.…”
Section: Symbols Vs Non-symbolic Representationsmentioning
confidence: 90%
“…5 Relatedly, one could wonder whether the claim that particular self-organising systems perform approximate Bayesian inference can only be defended under a perspectivalist account of physical computation (see Dewhurst, 2018;Schweizer, 2016; for discussion, see Coelho Mollo, 2021). For the purposes of this paper, no specific stance on physical computation is required.…”
Section: The Free Energy Principle and Mechanical Theoriesmentioning
confidence: 99%