Modeling Life as Cognitive Info-computation
Book chapter, 2014

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.

information

info-computation

computation

Author

Gordana Dodig Crnkovic

Chalmers, Applied Information Technology (Chalmers), Cognition and Communication

Arnold Beckmann, Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú and Klaus Meer (Eds.) Proceedings of the 10th Computability in Europe 2014

153-163
978-3-319-08018-5 (ISBN)

Areas of Advance

Information and Communication Technology

Subject Categories (SSIF 2011)

Computer and Information Science

ISBN

978-3-319-08018-5

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Created

11/19/2017