{"id":485,"date":"2018-06-18T06:07:53","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T06:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moco18.provocations.online\/?p=485"},"modified":"2021-04-17T11:59:26","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T11:59:26","slug":"xin-wei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/provocations.online\/whatescapescomputation\/xin-wei\/","title":{"rendered":"Sha Xin Wei"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul><li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The unsolved <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">hard problem of consciousness<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: the gulf between \u201cinternal consciousness\u201d and physical observables, implies that <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">no<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> computational techniques based on physical sensing can yield certificate of intention.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Any choice of measure, or instrument of measurement, makes some aspect of experience legible, and others illegible.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Any sensor makes some feature of activity visible and all other features invisible.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Movement, as a temporal phenomenon, escapes synchronic representation.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Experience &gt; perception &gt; data. &nbsp;Examples abound from psychoacoustics and psychovision, and sensorimotor studies, gestalt, phenomenology. <\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Felt experience (Eugene Gendlin), and tacit dimension (Michael Polanyi, Satinder Gill).<\/span><\/li><li>All algorithms on Turing-equivalent machines (i.e. on <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">any<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> digital computer) suffer from absolute limits:<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The space of computable functions is, in a strict sense, negligible as a subset of the space of all functions on the same domain and range. &nbsp;In particular, the space of functions mapping between finite discrete subsets of the reals is of measure zero in the space of all continuous (measurable) functions on the reals.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Undecidability puts a strong (fatal) bound on what can or cannot be amenable to any algorithm.<\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4>-Sha Xin Wei<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;Any choice of measure, or instrument of measurement, makes some aspect of experience legible, and others illegible&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[]},"categories":[20,25,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/provocations.online\/whatescapescomputation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/provocations.online\/whatescapescomputation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/provocations.online\/whatescapescomputation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/provocations.online\/whatescapescomputation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/provocations.online\/whatescapescomputation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/provocations.online\/whatescapescomputation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1103,"href":"https:\/\/provocations.online\/whatescapescomputation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions\/1103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/provocations.online\/whatescapescomputation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/provocations.online\/whatescapescomputation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/provocations.online\/whatescapescomputation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}