#Life must have emerged from the physical world. This emergence must be understood if our knowledge is not to degenerate (more than it has already) into a collection of disjoint specialized disciplines.
… #physics and #biology require different levels of #models … physical theory is described by rate-dependent dynamical #laws that have no #memory, while #evolution depends, at least to some degree, on #control of dynamics by rate-independent memory #structures.”
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/12009802_The_physics_of_symbols_Bridging_the_epistemic_cut
Not according to Howard Pattee, they don’t.
Read the paper and see if you can find a flaw in his reasoning. I can’t.
That paper is about epistemology. I’m referring to physics, where memory exists whether anybody’s around to know it or not.
Care to provide an example of this “physical memory”?
Contrails in a cloud chamber.
@Pat
I believe that is just a #record of an interaction between two (or more) physical #structures.
Memory requires an entire physical #system able to preserve the #information contained in this record from one moment in time to another until it is retrieved (by the system) and used for something else.
According to #HvFoerster, the “integrated functional circuit” for #Cognition requires three things:
1⃣ #Perception
2⃣ #Memory, and
3⃣ #Prediction
Prediction is essential for drawing (memory-based) #inferences
” without which perception degenerates into #sensation and memory into #recording”.
See pp 105-106 in the quite interesting collection of his thoughts Understanding Understanding
@Kihbernetics
The laws of physics require memory. Motion requires memory. Time implies memory.