only scattered raw chains of thought below; need to first finish Computational Dualism and Objective Superintelligence & co
pancomputationalism (everything is computer) + enactivism (computation isn’t a localizable/decoupled subsystem) → there are no ideal computations; there is no platonic realm of computations. Any real computation is implemented.
everything is computer but computer is coupled to matter, no bridge between two ontological categories / no ‘computational dualism’ needed)
minds are not a computation in the sense of a discrete identifiable program with definite input-output behavior, but regions of a computational environment … which pattern counts as “the mind” depends on how you define your categories / abstractions. Minds are not a priviledged kind of computation but a pragmatic carving/window/perspective on a computational universe.
Life must act (yet another word for “function”). A living thing is a process, not a printout or a mathematical abstraction; so these actions have to be taken—or the process is disconnected from the world, and, causally speaking, the model may as well not exist.
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