Eco-Cognitive Computationalism

Cognitive Domestication of Ignorant Entities

verfasst von: Prof. Lorenzo Magnani

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buchreihe : Cognitive Systems Monographs

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This book mainly focuses on the widely distributed nature of computational tools, models, and methods, ultimately related to the current importance of computational machines as mediators of cognition. An entirely new eco-cognitive approach to computation is offered, to underline the question of the overwhelming cognitive domestication of ignorant entities, which is persistently at work in our current societies. Eco-cognitive computationalism does not aim at furnishing an ultimate and static definition of the concepts of information, cognition, and computation, instead, it intends, by respecting their historical and dynamical character, to propose an intellectual framework that depicts how we can understand their forms of “emergence” and the modification of their meanings, also dealing with impressive unconventional non-digital cases. The new proposed perspective also leads to a clear description of the divergence between weak and strong levels of creative “abductive” hypothetical cognition: weak accomplishments are related to “locked abductive strategies”, typical of computational machines, and deep creativity is instead related to “unlocked abductive strategies”, which characterize human cognizers, who benefit from the so-called “eco-cognitive openness”.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter

Chapter 1. Computationalism in a Dynamic and Distributed Eco-Cognitive Perspective

Abstract

The concepts of information, computation, and cognition are variously interpreted and explained and still lead to ambiguous results.

Lorenzo Magnani

Chapter 2. Eco-cognitive Computationalism

Abstract

We have already delineated some basic aspects of the so-called eco-cognitive computationalism, for example the fact that computation is always seen in context, exploiting the ideas developed in those projects that have originated the recent views on embodied, situated, and distributed cognition. As illustrated in the previous chapter Turing’s original intellectual perspective has already clearly depicted the evolutionary emergence in humans of information, meaning, and of the first rudimentary forms of cognition, as the result of a complex interplay and simultaneous coevolution, in time, of the states of brain/mind, body, and external environment.

Lorenzo Magnani

Chapter 3. AlphaGo, Locked Strategies, and Eco-cognitive Openness

Abstract

In 2015, Google DeepMind’s program AlphaGo (able to perform the famous Go game) beat Fan Hui, the European Go champion and a 2 dan (out of 9 dan) professional, five times out of five with no handicap on a full size 19 \(\times \) 19 board.

Lorenzo Magnani

Chapter 4. Computational Domestication of Ignorant Entities

Abstract

In the first two chapters of this book we have stressed that eco-cognitive computationalism sees computation in context, following some of the main tenets advanced by the recent cognitive science views on embodied, situated, and distributed cognition. We have also described the new attention in computer science devoted to the relevance in computation of the morphological features. It is by further deepening and analyzing the perspective opened by these novel fascinating approach that we see ignorant bodies as domesticated to become useful “mimetic bodies” from a computational point of view.

Lorenzo Magnani

Backmatter

Titel: Eco-Cognitive Computationalism
verfasst von: Prof. Lorenzo Magnani
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-81447-2
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-81446-5
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81447-2

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