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Area of Science:

  • * Theoretical Biology
  • * Computational Neuroscience
  • * Philosophy of Mind

Background:

  • * Organisms exhibit complex responses to environmental stimuli.
  • * Existing models may not fully capture these dynamic interactions.
  • * Consciousness remains a challenging phenomenon to define and quantify.

Purpose of the Study:

  • * To model organismal responses to external stimuli using a theoretical framework.
  • * To explore the concept of consciousness as a mathematical phenomenon.
  • * To introduce 'hybridization of behaviour' as a key concept.

Main Methods:

  • * Employing a variant of an oracle Turing machine (oTM) as a computational model.
  • * Demonstrating that this oTM variant is equivalent to a cellular automaton with an oracle.
  • * Interpreting observed interactions as forms of reflection and consciousness.

Main Results:

  • * A cellular automaton with an oracle can model intricate organismal behaviors, like those in fungi.
  • * Environmental interactions reveal reflective properties interpretable as a minimum consciousness.
  • * Consciousness is mathematically defined via arbitrary modifications to arithmetic functions ('hybridization of behaviour').

Conclusions:

  • * Oracle Turing machines provide a mathematical language for understanding behavioral hybridization.
  • * The study offers a novel, mathematical perspective on consciousness.
  • * This approach bridges theoretical computation with biological complexity.