Energy Requirements Undermine Substrate Independence and Mind-Body Functionalism.
Substrate independence and mind-body functionalism claim that thinking does not depend on any particular kind of physical implementation. But real-world information processing depends on energy, and energy depends on material substrates. Biological evidence for these claims comes from ecology and ne...
| Published in: | Philosophy of Science Vol. 89; no. 1; pp. 70 - 89 |
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Cambridge University Press
Jan2022
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