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Teleonomy: Revisiting a Proposed Conceptual Replacement for Teleology. [PDF]

Biol Theory, 2023
Dresow M, Love AC.
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Embedding mental files in the world

Mind &Language, EarlyView.
Cognitive scientific explanations can take either a mechanistic or design perspective. Some recent philosophical works propose to apply the mechanistic perspective to the influential mental file framework. The design perspective, however, remains underexplored.
Zhengxi Jin
wiley   +1 more source

What teleology (if any) does the Organisational Approach naturalise? [PDF]

Hist Philos Life Sci
Cuciniello RR.
europepmc   +1 more source

What does it mean to be an agent? [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2023
Naidoo M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Teleosemantics for neural word embeddings

Mind &Language, EarlyView.
This paper applies a consumer‐based teleosemantic framework to give a detailed analysis of a particular algorithm for generating word embeddings. In the process, it addresses several of the challenges facing teleosemantic approaches to artificial neural networks.
Fintan Mallory
wiley   +1 more source

Agency, goal directedness, and the levels of biological organization. [PDF]

Bioscience
Bourrat P, Barron AB.
europepmc   +1 more source

A thermodynamic basis for teleological causality. [PDF]

Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci, 2023
Deacon TW, García-Valdecasas M.
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Inferential communication: The primacy of external representations

Mind &Language, EarlyView.
We argue that intentionalist accounts of ostensive‐inferential communication fail to adequately explain the role of external representations in human communication. We propose that the contents of a specific form of representational communication, symbolic depictions via spatio‐temporal arrangements of objects, can be inferred without attributing ...
Nima Mussavifard, Gergely Csibra
wiley   +1 more source

From the logic of coordination to goal-directed reasoning: the agentic turn in artificial intelligence. [PDF]

Front Artif Intell
Haidemariam T.
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How LLMs might think

Mind &Language, EarlyView.
Do large language models (“LLMs”) think? Daniel Stoljar and Zhihe Vincent Zhang have recently developed an argument from rationality for the claim that LLMs do not think. We contend, however, that the argument from rationality not only falters, but leaves open an intriguing possibility: that LLMs engage only in arational, associative forms of thinking ...
Joseph Gottlieb, Ethan Kemp, Matthew Trager   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source