Targets digital CF
Serves primarily to target digital CF positions in philosophy of mind, but may also be applied elsewhere. See here for discussion of positions.
Challenging Arguments (8)
Phenomenal Binding Problem
How do CF algorithms give rise to ontologically unified moments of experience?
Chinese Room Argument
A system can perfectly mimic understanding without being conscious.
Slicing Problem
A trivial physical operation on a 3D Turing machine could theoretically multiply the number of minds at no cost.
Simulation Equivalence Argument
Simulating a thing (like weather) is not the same as instantiating it physically.
Possibility of Analogue Computation
Consciousness might depend on continuous (analogue) processes, not discrete (digital) ones.
Pan-Computationalism
Any physical system can be seen as computing almost any algorithm if you interpret it creatively enough.
Unfolding Problem
Any recurrent neural network can be made feedforward-only, conflicting with evidence of recurrency and self-reference in humans.
Pen & Paper Argument
CF says you could create a conscious experience by manually computing an algorithm on paper over thousands of years.