[FRIAM] Wizards[⚣]?

[Jon Zingale]

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Oh, for instance:  I tried to get development psychologist to think
about  the implication of Wolfram’s patterns.  They just weren’t
interested.    Where’s the soul?

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The first thing that crosses my mind is constructor theory and that
got me wondering about support from the life-level community. It seems
that one of the theories founders, Chiara Marletto, wrote a bit on the
subject: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1407.0681.pdf

"""
Neo-Darwinian evolutionary theory explains how the appearance of
purposive design in the sophisticated adaptations of living organisms
can have come about without their intentionally being designed. The
explanation relies crucially on the possibility of certain physical
processes: mainly, gene replication and natural selection.

In this paper I show that for those processes to be possible without
the design of biological adaptations being encoded in the laws of
physics, those laws must have certain other properties. The theory of
what these properties are is not part of evolution theory proper, and
has not been developed, yet without it the neo-Darwinian theory does
not fully achieve its purpose of explaining the appearance of design.

To this end I apply Constructor Theory’s new mode of explanation to
provide an exact formulation of the appearance of design, of no-design
laws, and of the logic of self-reproduction and natural selection,
within fundamental physics. I conclude that self-reproduction,
replication and natural selection are possible under no-design laws,
the only non-trivial condition being that they allow digital
information to be physically instantiated. This has an exact
characterisation in the constructor theory of information. I also show
that under no-design laws an accurate replicator requires the
existence of a “vehicle” constituting, together with the replicator, a
self-reproducer.
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Is this at all in the ballpark of your thinking on the matter?
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