Dynamics of Information as Natural Computation

Dodig-Crnković, Gordana

doi:10.3390/info2030460

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“…Info-computationalism is a synthesis of informational structural realism and natural computationalism (pancomputationalism) -the view that the universe computes its own next state from the previous one [23]. It builds on two basic complementary concepts: information (structure) and computation (the dynamics of informational structure) as described in [24] [25] and [26].…”

Section: Informational Structure Of Reality For a Cognitive Agentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Modeling Life as Cognitive Info-computation

Dodig-Crnković

2014

Language, Life, Limits

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Abstract. This article presents a naturalist approach to cognition understood as a network of info-computational, autopoietic processes in living systems. It provides a conceptual framework for the unified view of cognition as evolved from the simplest to the most complex organisms, based on new empirical and theoretical results. It addresses three fundamental questions: what cognition is, how cognition works and what cognition does at different levels of complexity of living organisms. By explicating the info-computational character of cognition, its evolution, agent-dependency and generative mechanisms we can better understand its life-sustaining and life-propagating role. The info-computational approach contributes to rethinking cognition as a process of natural computation in living beings that can be applied for cognitive computation in artificial systems.

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Section: Informational Structure Of Reality For a Cognitive Agentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Modeling Life as Cognitive Info-computation

Dodig-Crnković

2014

Language, Life, Limits

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“…Physical laws govern fundamental computational processes which express changes of informational structures. (Dodig Crnkovic 2008) The environment provides a variety of inputs in the form of both information and matter-energy, where the difference between information and matter-energy is not in the kind, but in the type of use the organism makes of it. As there is no information without representation, all information is carried by some physical carrier (light, sound, radio-waves, chemical molecules able to trigger smell receptors, etc.).…”

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The Info-computational Nature of Morphological Computing

Dodig-Crnković

2013

Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics

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Morphological computing emerged recently as an approach in robotics aimed at saving robots computational and other resources by utilizing physical properties of the robotic body to automatically produce and control behavior. The idea is that the morphology of an agent (a living organism or a machine) constrains its possible interactions with the environment as well as its development, including its growth and reconfiguration. The nature of morphological computing becomes especially apparent in the info-computational framework, which combines informational structural realism (the idea that the world for an agent is an informational structure) with natural computationalism (the view that all of nature forms a network of computational processes). Info-computationalism describes morphological computation as a process of continuous self-structuring of information and shaping of both interactions and informational structures. This article argues that natural computation/morphological computation is a computational model of physical reality, and not just a metaphor or analogy, as it provides a basis for computational framing, parameter studies, optimizations and simulations -all of which go far beyond metaphor or analogy.

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“…55]). According to Dodig-Crnkovic [56], computation such as it appears in the natural world is much more general than what the TM is able to model-or simulate. As a matter of fact, in nature living beings process more than numbers and functions.…”

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Biological hypercomputation: A new research problem in complexity theory

Maldonado

Cruz

2014

Complexity

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This article discusses the meaning and scope of biological hypercomputation (BH) that is to be considered as new research problem within the sciences of complexity. The framework here is computational, setting out that life is not a standard Turing Machine. Living systems, we claim, hypercompute, and we aim at understanding life not by what it is, but rather by what it does. The distinction is made between classical and nonclassical hypercomputation. We argue that living processes are nonclassical hypercomputation. BH implies then new computational models. Finally, we sketch out the possibilities, stances, and reach of BH.

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Dynamics of Information as Natural Computation

Cited by 33 publications

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Modeling Life as Cognitive Info-computation

Modeling Life as Cognitive Info-computation

The Info-computational Nature of Morphological Computing

Biological hypercomputation: A new research problem in complexity theory

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