She has been there since 2012, working together with Giulio Tononi on Integrated Information Theory.ġst Prize Winner (three-way tie): Carlo Rovelli, “Meaning and Intentionality = Information + Evolution”Ĭarlo Rovelli is a theoretical physicist working at the University of Aix-Marseille in France. Larissa Albantakis is a scientist at the Wisconsin Institute for Sleep and Consciousness, at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. How does this work? How do goal-oriented systems arise, and how do they exist and function in a world that we can describe in terms of goal-free mathematical evolution?ġst Prize Winner (three-way tie): Larissa Albantakis, “A Tale of Two Animats: What does it take to have goals?” Living systems efficiently organize their simplest components with the intricate aims of survival, reproduction, and other biological ends and intelligent systems can employ a panoply of physical effects to accomplish many flexibly chosen goals. Many-body systems can seem hopelessly complex when looked at in terms of their constituents’ detailed dynamic motions, but neatly elegant when viewed as attempting to minimize energy or maximize entropy. The motion of the most basic particle can be described by the action of forces moment by moment or as the attempt to extremize an action integral, calculated over the particle’s entire path throughout time. But many phenomena admit another description – sometimes a vastly more useful one – in terms of long-term, large-scale goals, aims, and intentions. These laws provide predictions by carrying conditions at one moment of time inexorably into the future. One way to think of physics is as a set of mathematical laws of dynamics. How can mindless mathematical laws give rise to aims and intentions? This contest was possible due to support from Fetzer Franklin Fund and The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation. He mainly works in mathematical physics, mathematics (notably non-commutative geometry), and foundations of physics. Landsman is a professor of mathematical physics at Radboud University. Are there, for example, real consequences for physics - including quantum mechanics - of undecidability and non-computability? Are there implications for our understanding of the relations between agency, intelligence, mind, and the physical world?ġst Prize Winner: Klaas Landsman, “Undecidability and indeterminism” While some connections between these results have come to light, many remain obscure, and the implications are unclear. ![]() Gödel’s undecidability results (the incompleteness theorems), Turing’s proof of non-computable values, the formulation of quantum theory, chaos, and other developments over the past century have shown that there are rigorous arguments limiting what we can prove, compute, and predict. They could discern what math corresponds to physical laws and use those laws to predict anything that happens before it happens. For a brief time in history, it was possible to imagine that a sufficiently advanced intellect could, given sufficient time and resources, in principle, understand how to mathematically prove everything that was true.
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