From what do you posit this ability to "instantiate one specific abstract into a physical item" comes from, and why do you think only wetware can do it?
Reading it again, I think you might be talking about Qualia.
From what do you posit this ability to "instantiate one specific abstract into a physical item" comes from, and why do you think only wetware can do it?
Reading it again, I think you might be talking about Qualia.
It is what Aristotle called the intellectual soul, not qualia. Qualia is an experience and has no relation to holding abstract concepts. As I already wrote, Turing machines cannot do it for they suffer from multiple realizability, any abstract concept can be implemented in multiple physical constructs and any physical construct can be interpreted to be any number of different abstract items. I have not written that only "wetware" can do it, I have written that turing machines cannot do it and that no purely physical construct can do it (including purely newtonian/quantum wetware).