Screen LibraryComputing nature : Turing centenary perspective /
This book is about nature considered as the totality of physical existence, the universe, and our present day attempts to understand it. If we see the universe as a network of networks of computational processes at many different levels of organization, what can we learn about physics, biology, cogn...
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Springer,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin ; New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 2013. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Studies in applied philosophy, epistemology and rational ethics,
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| Online Access: |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37225-4 |
| Summary: |
This book is about nature considered as the totality of physical existence, the universe, and our present day attempts to understand it. If we see the universe as a network of networks of computational processes at many different levels of organization, what can we learn about physics, biology, cognition, social systems, and ecology expressed through interacting networks of elementary particles, atoms, molecules, cells, (and especially neurons when it comes to understanding of cognition and intelligence), organs, organisms and their ecologies? Regarding our computational models of natural phen |
| Item Description: | Includes author index. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9783642372254 (electronic bk.) 3642372252 (electronic bk.) |
| Index Number: | QA76 |
| CLC: | TP18 |
| Contents: |
Computing Nature - A Network of Networks of Concurrent Information Processes / A Framework for Computing Like Nature / The Coordination of Probabilistic Inference in Neural Systems / Neurobiological Computation and Synthetic Intelligence / A Behavioural Foundation for Natural Computing and a Programmability Test / Alan Turing's Legacy: Info-computational Philosophy of Nature / Dualism of Selective and Structural Manifestations of Information in Modelling of Information Dynamics / Intelligence and Reference / Representation, Analytic Pragmatism and AI / Salient Features and Snapshots in Time: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Object Representation / Toward Turing's A-Type Unorganised Machines in an Unconventional Substrate: A Dynamic Representation in Compartmentalised Excitable Chemical Media / Learning to Hypercompute? An Analysis of Siegelmann Networks / Oracle Hypermachines Faced with the Verification Problem / Does the Principle of Computational Equivalence Overcome the Objections against Computationalism? / Some Constraints on the Physical Realizability of a Mathematical Construction / From the Closed Classical Algorithmic Universe to an Open World of Algorithmic Constellations / What Makes a Computation Unconventional? / |