Representation and Interpretation in Artificial and Natural Computing

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.10383v1
• Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2025 18:57:29 GMT
• Title: Representation and Interpretation in Artificial and Natural Computing
• Authors: Luis A. Pineda,
• Abstract summary: In the putative natural computing both processes are performed by the same agent. The mode used by digital computers is the algorithmic one. For a mode of computing to be more powerful than an algorithmic one, it ought to compute functions lacking an effective algorithm.
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• Abstract: Artificial computing machinery transforms representations through an objective process, to be interpreted subjectively by humans, so the machine and the interpreter are different entities, but in the putative natural computing both processes are performed by the same agent. The method or process that transforms a representation is called here \emph{the mode of computing}. The mode used by digital computers is the algorithmic one, but there are others, such as quantum computers and diverse forms of non-conventional computing, and there is an open-ended set of representational formats and modes that could be used in artificial and natural computing. A mode based on a notion of computing different from Turing's may perform feats beyond what the Turing Machine does but the modes would not be of the same kind and could not be compared. For a mode of computing to be more powerful than the algorithmic one, it ought to compute functions lacking an effective algorithm, and Church Thesis would not hold. Here, a thought experiment including a computational demon using a hypothetical mode for such an effect is presented. If there is natural computing, there is a mode of natural computing whose properties may be causal to the phenomenological experience. Discovering it would come with solving the hard problem of consciousness; but if it turns out that such a mode does not exist, there is no such thing as natural computing, and the mind is not a computational process.

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