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#212 Donald Hoffman: The Case Against Reality; Perception, Consciousness, And Reality

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How Many Fitness Payoff Functions Will Preserve Information About Structures in the World?

Fitness payoffs do depend on objective reality whatever that might be but they also depend on the organism its state and its action. Even though a fitness payoff it is a function that depends on the world we can ask how many of those fitness payoffs would preserve a structure in the world. The ratio goes precisely to zero as the number of states in the world and the number of fitness payoff values increases to infinity so the probability is zero that a fitness payoff preserves a total order. I found that even if you allow lots of slop into an amorphism-preserving fitness payoff you are close to being a homomorphism preserving certain amount of slop.

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