Deanthropomorphized Pancomputationalism and the Concept of Computing

Abstract

Pancomputationalism is quite a wide-ranging concept, but most of its variants, either implicitly or explicitly, rely on Turing’s conceptualizations of a computer and computing, which are obvious anthropomorphisms. This paper questions the concept of pancomputationalism based on Turing computing and asks what concept of computation can be used to avoid the constrains of anthropomorphisations.

Rethinking Human and Machine Intelligence through Kant, Wittgenstein, and Gödel

“…Ultimately, the images of the subject and predicate are combined to create a holistic image of the sentence itself. 11…”

“…Husserl's diagram can provide a useful illustration for how the "retaining" takes place(Dodd, 2005) 11. One's image of a word arises through the interconnections with other words in her subconscious corpus.…”