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rom MaxSynBio - Max Planck research network in Synthetic Biology
http://news.bio-based.eu/maxsynbio-max-planck-research-network-in-synthetic-biology/
more at
https://codicalist.wordpress.com/2018/12/14/material-semantics-for-unconventional-programming/
I would prefer consciousness-realist materialist to panpsychist.
@philipthrift (Twitter)
Vladimir,
Thank you for your comment and questions.
I will have to think some more about these issues, but as Galen Strawson writes here, "matter is a mystery":
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/16/opinion/consciousness-isnt-a-mystery-its-matter.html
Perhaps in addition of the canonical fields of matter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_(physics)
there is a psychical (consciousnessics) field.
Analog and quantum computers also make us of "unconventional" technology and so should be part of the mix as well.
https://codicalist.wordpress.com/2020/04/24/substrate-targeted-programming-stp/
Philip Thrift
(@philipthrift · Twitter)
Edwin,
Mathematical relativity theory is a bit outside my expertise, but I was interested to see Wolfram's "hypergraph" theory - discussed a lot recently - brought in. It will be interesting to see if this "new foundation" of Wolfram works out.
And thanks for the nice comment on my "Essay", which I revise here:
https://codicalist.wordpress.com/2020/04/24/substrate-targeted-programming-stp/
Philip Thrift (@philipthrift · Twitter)
Thank you very much for the nice and informative comments.
I will ready your essay this weekend.
Philip Thrift (@philipthrift · Twitter)
Essay Abstract
Substrate-targeted programing (STP) is a programming paradigm that consists of programming languages, frameworks, and methodologies where the programs are compiled into objects of a specific substrate. The compiled objects - which are not machine code objects of a conventional computer - may have uncomputable features that are outside the standard Turing machine model.
Author Bio
Philip Thrift writes on programming theory at his blog, codicalist.wordpress.com.