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Cube Flipper (verified) @cube_flipper · 2h let's say i give you a specific volume of spacetime. how do you unambiguously describe what computations it contains? what if it contains a brain? a laptop? [quoted post] ||||| (verified) @insurrealist · 3h Replying to @insurrealist @cube_flipper @jessi_cata Please point me to a steel man of computational functionalism before I lose my mind. I hate philosophy of mind, man... 5 replies 1 repost 18 likes 856 views fellow [small symbol] traveler (verified) @architectonyx · 1h The particular causal interactions in a given region are real and are identifiable. You can say that these are instantiating a given computation if there is a surjective mapping from the physical states to the states of the computation that commutes with the physical dynamics
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A philosophy-of-mind exchange on X: Cube Flipper (@cube_flipper) asks how a volume of spacetime can unambiguously be said to contain a computation, quoting a request for a steel man of computational functionalism, followed by a reply from @architectonyx giving a mapping-based criterion.
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