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  1. The Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. [REVIEW]Chris Fields - unknown
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    Fitness Beats Truth in the Evolution of Perception.Chetan Prakash, Kyle D. Stephens, Donald D. Hoffman, Manish Singh & Chris Fields - 2020 - Acta Biotheoretica 69 (3):319-341.
    Does natural selection favor veridical percepts—those that accurately depict objective reality? Perceptual and cognitive scientists standardly claim that it does. Here we formalize this claim using the tools of evolutionary game theory and Bayesian decision theory. We state and prove the “Fitness-Beats-Truth Theorem” which shows that the claim is false: If one starts with the assumption that perception involves inference to states of the objective world, then the FBT Theorem shows that a strategy that simply seeks to maximize expected-fitness payoff, (...)
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    Scale‐Free Biology: Integrating Evolutionary and Developmental Thinking.Chris Fields & Michael Levin - 2020 - Bioessays 42 (8):1900228.
    When the history of life on earth is viewed as a history of cell division, all of life becomes a single cell lineage. The growth and differentiation of this lineage in reciprocal interaction with its environment can be viewed as a developmental process; hence the evolution of life on earth can also be seen as the development of life on earth. Here, in reviewing this field, some potentially fruitful research directions suggested by this change in perspective are highlighted. Variation and (...)
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    How do Living Systems Create Meaning?Chris Fields & Michael Levin - 2020 - Philosophies 5 (36):36-0.
    Meaning has traditionally been regarded as a problem for philosophers and psychologists. Advances in cognitive science since the early 1960s, however, broadened discussions of meaning, or more technically, the semantics of perceptions, representations, and/or actions, into biology and computer science. Here, we review the notion of “meaning” as it applies to living systems, and argue that the question of how living systems create meaning unifies the biological and cognitive sciences across both organizational and temporal scales.
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  5. Role of the Frame Problem in Fodor's Modularity Thesis.Eric Dietrich & Chris Fields - 1996 - In Ken Ford & Zenon Pylyshyn (eds.), The Robot's Dilemma Revisited.
    It is shown that the Fodor's interpretation of the frame problem is the central indication that his version of the Modularity Thesis is incompatible with computationalism. Since computationalism is far more plausible than this thesis, the latter should be rejected.
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  6. Science Generates Limit Paradoxes.Eric Dietrich & Chris Fields - 2015 - Axiomathes 25 (4):409-432.
    The sciences occasionally generate discoveries that undermine their own assumptions. Two such discoveries are characterized here: the discovery of apophenia by cognitive psychology and the discovery that physical systems cannot be locally bounded within quantum theory. It is shown that such discoveries have a common structure and that this common structure is an instance of Priest’s well-known Inclosure Schema. This demonstrates that science itself is dialetheic: it generates limit paradoxes. How science proceeds despite this fact is briefly discussed, as is (...)
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    On the Ollivier–Poulin–Zurek Definition of Objectivity.Chris Fields - 2014 - Axiomathes 24 (1):137-156.
    The Ollivier–Poulin–Zurek definition of objectivity provides a philosophical basis for the environment as witness formulation of decoherence theory and hence for quantum Darwinism. It is shown that no account of the reference of the key terms in this definition can be given that does not render the definition inapplicable within quantum theory. It is argued that this is not the fault of the language used, but of the assumption that the laws of physics are independent of Hilbert-space decomposition. All evidence (...)
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    A Physics-Based Metaphysics is a Metaphysics-Based Metaphysics.Chris Fields - 2014 - Acta Analytica 29 (2):131-148.
    The common practice of advancing arguments based on current physics in support of metaphysical conclusions has been criticized on the grounds that current physics may well be wrong. A further criticism is leveled here: current physics itself depends on metaphysical assumptions, so arguing from current physics is in fact arguing from yet more metaphysics. It is shown that the metaphysical assumptions underlying current physics are often deeply embedded in the formalism in which theories are presented, and hence impossible to dismiss (...)
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    Using AI Methods to Evaluate a Minimal Model for Perception.Chris Fields & Robert Prentner - 2019 - Open Philosophy 2 (1):503-524.
    The relationship between philosophy and research on artificial intelligence (AI) has been difficult since its beginning, with mutual misunderstanding and sometimes even hostility. By contrast, we show how an approach informed by both philosophy and AI can be productive. After reviewing some popular frameworks for computation and learning, we apply the AI methodology of “build it and see” to tackle the philosophical and psychological problem of characterizing perception as distinct from sensation. Our model comprises a network of very simple, but (...)
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  10. Consistent Quantum Mechanics Admits No Mereotopology.Chris Fields - 2012 - Axiomathes (1):1-10.
    It is standardly assumed in discussions of quantum theory that physical systems can be regarded as having well-defined Hilbert spaces. It is shown here that a Hilbert space can be consistently partitioned only if its components are assumed not to interact. The assumption that physical systems have well-defined Hilbert spaces is, therefore, physically unwarranted.
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  11. Double on Searle's chinese room.Christopher A. Fields - 1984 - Nature and System 6 (March):51-54.
     
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    Motion, identity and the bias toward agency.Chris Fields - 2014 - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 8.
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    Human‐computer interaction: A critical synthesis.Chris Fields - 1987 - Social Epistemology 1 (1):5 – 25.
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    Consistent Quantum Mechanics Admits No Mereotopology.Chris Fields - 2014 - Axiomathes 24 (1):9-18.
    It is standardly assumed in discussions of quantum theory that physical systems can be regarded as having well-defined Hilbert spaces. It is shown here that a Hilbert space can be consistently partitioned only if its components are assumed not to interact. The assumption that physical systems have well-defined Hilbert spaces is, therefore, physically unwarranted.
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  15. Measurement and Computational Description.Chris Fields - 1996 - In P. J. R. Millican & A. Clark (eds.), Machines and Thought: The Legacy of Alan Turing, Volume 1. Clarendon Press.
     
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    Explaining classical conditioning: Phenomenological unity conceals mechanistic diversity.Chris Fields - 1989 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 12 (1):141-142.
  17. Equivalence of the Frame and Halting Problems.Eric Dietrich & Chris Fields - 2020 - Algorithms 13 (175):1-9.
    The open-domain Frame Problem is the problem of determining what features of an open task environment need to be updated following an action. Here we prove that the open-domain Frame Problem is equivalent to the Halting Problem and is therefore undecidable. We discuss two other open-domain problems closely related to the Frame Problem, the system identification problem and the symbol-grounding problem, and show that they are similarly undecidable. We then reformulate the Frame Problem as a quantum decision problem, and show (...)
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    Some assumptions underlying Smolensky's treatment of connectionism.Eric Dietrich & Chris Fields - 1988 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 11 (1):29-31.
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    The Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. [REVIEW]Chris Fields - 2013 - Disputatio 5 (37):361-367.
    Fields, Chris_The Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, by Ruth Kastner.
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    Editorial: Epistemic Feelings: Phenomenology, Implementation, and Role in Cognition.Eric Dietrich, Chris Fields, Donald D. Hoffman & Robert Prentner - 2020 - Frontiers in Psychology 11.
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  21. BlackInTheIvory : utilizing Twitter to explore Black womxn's experiences in the academy.Christina Wright Fields & Katrina M. Overby - 2022 - In Christa J. Porter, V. Thandi Sulé & Natasha N. Croom (eds.), Black Feminist Epistemology, Research, and Praxis: Narratives in and Through the Academy. Routledge.
     
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  22. BlackInTheIvory : utilizing Twitter to explore Black womxn's experiences in the academy.Christina Wright Fields & Katrina M. Overby - 2023 - In Christa J. Porter, V. Thandi Sulé & Natasha N. Croom (eds.), Black feminist epistemology, research, and praxis: narratives in and through the academy. Routledge.
     
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  23. Real machines and virtual intentionality: An experimentalist takes on the problem of representational content.Christopher A. Fields - 1994 - In Eric Dietrich (ed.), Thinking Computers and Virtual Persons. Academic Press.
     
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    Editorial: How Humans Recognize Objects: Segmentation, Categorization and Individual Identification.Chris Fields - 2016 - Frontiers in Psychology 7.
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    Decompositional Equivalence: A Fundamental Symmetry Underlying Quantum Theory.Chris Fields - 2016 - Axiomathes 26 (3):279-311.
    Decompositional equivalence is the principle that there is no preferred decomposition of the universe into subsystems. It is shown here, by using a simple thought experiment, that quantum theory follows from decompositional equivalence together with Landauer’s principle. This demonstration raises within physics a question previously left to psychology: how do human—or any—observers identify or agree about what constitutes a “system of interest”?
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    Scale-free architectures support representational diversity.Chris Fields & James F. Glazebrook - 2020 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 43.
    Gilead et al. propose an ontology of abstract representations based on folk-psychological conceptions of cognitive architecture. There is, however, no evidence that the experience of cognition reveals the architecture of cognition. Scale-free architectural models propose that cognition has the same computational architecture from sub-cellular to whole-organism scales. This scale-free architecture supports representations with diverse functions and levels of abstraction.
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    Affordance perception and the Y-magnocellular pathway.Chris Fields - 1989 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 12 (3):403-404.
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    Intentionality is a red herring.Chris Fields & Eric Dietrich - 1987 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 10 (4):756.
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