Conclusion

Morphological Computing in Cognitive Systems, Connecting Data to Intelligent Agency

“…Each living being, starting from the simplest living cells, is an agent with the ability to generate behavior favorable for its own survival and thriving based on the interactions with its environment, including other living agents [1]. Within the framework of info-computationalism, in which information, always embodied in physical substrate [2], represents the world for an agent, while physical/embodied/morphological computation stands for all dynamics processes over informational structures, [3][4][5] living being are necessary consequence of the properties of physical matter that historically self-organized starting with a biogenesis leading to first living creatures, that continued evolving driven by own internal agency.…”

“…Evolution explained info-computationally with information and (morphological) computation at a variety of levels of organization is slightly different from the classical view of random mutations + selection as mutations are not governed only by chance but also by morphology and agency of a living organism. It is along the lines of the modern extended evolutionary synthesis [1] (pp. 103-113), [7,8], with its constructive development and reciprocal causation (as a consequence of interaction).…”