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--- abstract: "Without a proper restriction on mappings, virtually any\r\nsystem could be seen as implementing any computation. That\r\nwould not allow characterization of systems in terms of\r\nimplemented computations and is not compatible with a\r\ncomputationalist philosophy of mind. Information-based criteria for independence of substates within structured states are proposed as a solution. Objections to the use of requirements for transitions in counterfactual states are addressed, in part using the partial-brain argument as a general counterargument to neural replacement arguments." altloc: [] chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: 'April 1-2, 2014' conference: 7th AISB Symposium on Computing and Philosophy 2014 at AISB50 confloc: 'Goldsmiths, University of London' contact_email: ~ creators_id: - jackmallah@yahoo.com creators_name: - family: Mallah given: Jacques honourific: Dr. lineage: '' date: 2014-02-23 date_type: submitted datestamp: 2014-05-10 00:07:27 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/92/23 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: 0 edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: [] eprint_status: archive eprintid: 9223 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png;/9223/2/Mallah-Structure-Dynamics-AISB14-jus2.pdf full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: unpub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: ~ item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: 'structure, dynamics, implementation, computation, independence, inheritance, transference, counterfactual, structured states, neural replacement, partial brain' lastmod: 2014-05-10 00:07:27 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: ~ pagerange: ~ pubdom: FALSE publication: ~ publisher: AISB refereed: TRUE referencetext: "D. Chalmers. Does a Rock Implement Every Finite-State Automaton? Synthese, 108:309-33 (1996).\r\n\r\nH. Putnam. Representation and Reality. MIT Press (1988).\r\n\r\nSearle, J.R. Is the brain a digital computer? Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, 64:21-37 (1990).\r\n\r\nM. Tegmark. The Mathematical Universe. Foundations of Physics, 38:101-150 (2008).\r\n\r\nD. Chalmers. The Varieties of Computation: A Reply. Journal of Cognitive Science, 13:211-248 (2012).\r\n\r\nM. Sprevak. Three challenges to Chalmers on computational implementation. Journal of Cognitive Science, 13:107–143 (2012).\r\n\r\nD. Joslin. Real realization: Dennett’s real patterns versus Putnam’s ubiquitous automata. Minds and Machines, 16:29–41 (2006).\r\n\r\nM. Bishop. Counterfactuals cannot count: a rejoinder to David Chalmers. Consciousness & Cognition, 11:4:642-652 (2002).\r\n\r\nT. Maudlin. Computation and consciousness. The Journal of Philosophy, 86:407–432 (1989).\r\n\r\nM. Muhlestein. Counterfactuals, Computation, and Consciousness. Cognitive Computation, 5:1:99-105 (2013).\r\n\r\nB. Marchal. The computationalist reformulation of the mind-body problem. Prog Biophys Mol Biol. 113(1):127-40 (2013).\r\n\r\nD. Chalmers. Absent Qualia, Fading Qualia, Dancing Qualia. In: Conscious Experience. T. Metzinger (Ed). Imprint Academic (1995).\r\n\r\nJ. Mallah. The partial brain thought experiment: partial consciousness and its implications. Unpublished manuscript. http://cogprints.org/6321/ (2009)\r\n\r\nA. Pruss. Functionalism and Counting Minds. Unpublished manuscript. https://bearspace.baylor.edu/Alexander_Pruss/www/papers/CountingMinds.html (2004).\r\n\r\nJ. Mallah. The Many Computations Interpretation (MCI) of Quantum Mechanics. Unpublished manuscript. arXiv:0709.0544v1 [quant-ph] (2007)" relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 8 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2014-05-10 00:07:27 subjects: - comp-sci-art-intel - comp-sci-mach-dynam-sys - phil-mind - phil-sci succeeds: 9207 suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: Structure and Dynamics in Implementation of Computations type: confpaper userid: 8438 volume: ~