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2. Eco-cognitive Computationalism

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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.

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Fußnoten
1
On the meaning of these concepts in Turing’s sense see the previous chapter and Sects. 2.2.1 and 2.5.
 
2
Further details on this view proposed by Turing are illustrated in Magnani (2018).
 
3
In Magnani (2006), I have extendedly explained that this speculative argumentation has been recently supported by research in paleoanthropology on the birth of material culture.
 
4
More details on Turing’s ideas summarized in this section and in this previous chapter are illustrated in Magnani (2009), Chap. 3.
 
5
Cfr. also below, Sect. 2.4.
 
6
As an example of an alternative unconventional view of computation we can indicate the so-called Actor Model (Hewitt 2012): computation is conceived as distributed in space where computational machines communicate asynchronously and the whole computation is not in any well-defined state. In response to a message that it receives, an Actor can perform local decisions, generate more Actors, send new messages, and choose how to respond to the next message received. Turing’s Model is a particular case of the Actor Model. In this perspective, the Internet performs unconventional computations and seems controlled by super-recursive algorithms (Dodig-Crnkovic 2011).
 
7
Which is an abstract specification of the physical system that we wish to construct, within the representation of the theory at stake, to the aim of de facto reversing the modeling relation.
 
8
See, for example, the rich treatment provided by Müller and Hoffmann (2017).
 
9
More updated details can be found in Müller and Hoffmann (2017), p. 3 and Hauser et al. (2011, 2014).
 
10
On this issue, cf. also (Horsman et al. 2014, pp. 19–22).
 
11
Hauser et al. also usefully note that “Another important point is that classical robot designs (built out of rigid body parts connected with high torque servos) don’t have any deliberate computation in the physical layer, hence, any computation in the robot is carried out only in the abstract controller layer” (Hauser et al. 2014, p. 234).
 
12
In the following section of this chapter, I will describe the dangers that can emerge by thinking that mimetic computational modeling “is” immediately, ipso facto, scientific knowledge.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Eco-cognitive Computationalism
verfasst von
Lorenzo Magnani
Copyright-Jahr
2022
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81447-2_2

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