J. Mark Bishop

From Maps to Metabolism: Historical Precedents and a Unified Critique of Computationalism

arXiv Preprint Archive October 23, 2026 J. Mark Bishop, Slawomir J. Nasuto preprint

Alexander Lerchner's recent work on the 'abstraction fallacy' argues that computational functionalism confuses physical processes with abstract descriptions, and that symbolic computation alone cannot instantiate consciousness. Yet these claims were anticipated by Korzybski's map-territory distinction, Searle's critique of strong artificial intelligence, Floridi's levels of abstraction, Spencer...