most citedPancomputationalism: Theory or metaphor?

11 citations · 29 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.CY2025

Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

Vincent C. Müller

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a digital technology that will be of major importance for the development of humanity in the near future. AI has raised fundamental questions about…

cs.CL2025

Which symbol grounding problem should we try to solve?

Vincent C. Müller

Floridi and Taddeo propose a condition of "zero semantic commitment" for solutions to the grounding problem, and a solution to it. I argue briefly that their condition cannot be fu…

cs.OH202511 cited

Pancomputationalism: Theory or metaphor?

Vincent C. Müller

The theory that all processes in the universe are computational is attractive in its promise to provide an understandable theory of everything. I want to suggest here that this pan…

cs.AI2025

Challenges for artificial cognitive systems

Antoni Gomila, Vincent C. Müller

The declared goal of this paper is to fill this gap: "... cognitive systems research needs questions or challenges that define progress. The challenges are not (yet more) predictio…

cs.LO20255 cited

On the Possibilities of Hypercomputing Supertasks

Vincent C. Müller

This paper investigates the view that digital hypercomputing is a good reason for rejection or re-interpretation of the Church-Turing thesis. After suggestion that such re-interpre…

cs.CL20258 cited

Symbol grounding in computational systems: A paradox of intentions

Vincent C. Müller

The paper presents a paradoxical feature of computational systems that suggests that computationalism cannot explain symbol grounding. If the mind is a digital computer, as computa…