The philosophy of consciousness, ‘deep’ teleology and objective selection
Advances in Consciousness Research April 12, 2001 Philip Van Loocke
We consider systems in which forces and selection (or ‘reduction’) procedures cooperate to determine present states. Forces work on the immediate past of a system and determine a set of possible states. Selection works in the immediate future and selects one of these states as the actual state of the system. Selection can be constrained in terms of a criterion not reducible to the forces...