Yes, no need to apply. They are using the concept of self-reference in a misleading way. The true meaning of self-reference is an entity that refers to itself. There are several problems with the way in which they are using the concept. First problem is that "machine" is not an entity. "Machine" is just an idea in consciousness, it doesn't have an independent existence, it doesn't have any ontological status, it doesn't exist as an entity. And since it doesn't exist, it cannot refer to itself, or for that matter it cannot do anything. Only consciousness (and its forms of manifestation: qualia) has ontological status.
The second issue is that the way self-reference refers to itself is to incorporate itself in the very act of referring. Basically, the observer, the observed, and the act of observation are all one and the same thing. I'm pretty much you cannot think of a machine in these terms. So a "self-referential machine" is just words-play. It doesn't have anything in common whatsoever with the true characteristics of the true self-reference. On Tuesday, 16 April 2019 09:24:46 UTC+3, Philip Thrift wrote: > > So, no need to apply? :) > > > *Seeking Research Fellows in Type Theory and Machine Self-Reference* > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
