Some good points here, but anyone calling for a "metaphor-free theory" doesn't understand what a theory is https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-information-and-it-is-not-a-computer …
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"metaphor free theory" is a good metaphor for a proper causal model, except that would be per definition computational
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mechanisms wrt the work cited here http://psychsciencenotes.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/dynamic-mechanistic-explanations-in.html …
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ah, no. continua are hypercomputational. computers are cheaper than hypercomputers i think
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you can let arbitrarily approximated dynamical systems supervene over discrete computation and vice versa
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but what you cannot do in this universe is true infinitely resolved continuum dynamics @The_Lagrangian
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