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Chapter 8 Conclusions 8.1 Overview
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Mercer, Julie E. |
| Abstract | If metaphysics be turned out of the door, it will come in at the window. The aim of this study was to establish the thesis that computationalism is insufficient as a metaphysical basis for a unifying framework of "strong" emergent artificiality. The method adopted (chapter 1) involved the following: (1) Detailed examination of the concepts of computationalism (chapter 2), emergence (chapter 3) and artificiality (chapter 4) with a view to establishing a philosophical basis for their unification; (2) development of a unified framework of computationally emergent artificiality or CEA realized in a cellular automaton substrate based on a computational interpretation of Alexanderian metaphysics (chapter 5); (3) investigation of the distinction between ontical (causal, productive) and ontological (existential, incipient) concepts of poi[sis (becoming, coming-forth, bringing-forth) with a view to defining a poi[tic difference between naturals and artificials grounded in Heidegger's ontological difference between beings and Being as such (chapter 6); (4) explication of the poi[tic difference via a phenomenological framework for evaluating designed and emergent artificiality based on ontic (productive, organizational) and epistemic (interpretative, observational) relations between phenomena (naturals and artificials) and the anthropic component (human artificer-interpreter). Application of this framework in differentiating "hard" (or |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://mcs.open.ac.uk/sma78/thesis/pdf/8.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
