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Eco-Cognitive Computationalism

Cognitive Domestication of Ignorant Entities

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Authors:
  1. Lorenzo Magnani

    1. Department of Humanities, Philosophy Section and Computational Philosophy Laboratory, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

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  • Offers an entirely new dynamic perspective on the nature of computation
  • Highlights the role of unconventional computation as an incessant and terrific process of cognitive domestication of ignorant entities
  • Describes the kinds of cognitive creativity that differently characterizes computational entities and human cognizers

Part of the book series: Cognitive Systems Monographs (COSMOS, volume 43)

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Table of contents (4 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Computationalism in a Dynamic and Distributed Eco-Cognitive Perspective

    • Lorenzo Magnani
    Pages 1-21

  3. Eco-cognitive Computationalism

    • Lorenzo Magnani
    Pages 23-43

  4. AlphaGo, Locked Strategies, and Eco-cognitive Openness

    • Lorenzo Magnani
    Pages 45-71

  5. Computational Domestication of Ignorant Entities

    • Lorenzo Magnani
    Pages 73-103

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 105-106
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About this book

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”.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Humanities, Philosophy Section and Computational Philosophy Laboratory, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

    Lorenzo Magnani

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Eco-Cognitive Computationalism

  • Book Subtitle: Cognitive Domestication of Ignorant Entities

  • Authors: Lorenzo Magnani

  • Series Title: Cognitive Systems Monographs

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81447-2

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-81446-5Published: 31 August 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-81449-6Published: 01 September 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-81447-2Published: 30 August 2021

  • Series ISSN: 1867-4925

  • Series E-ISSN: 1867-4933

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 106

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Mathematical and Computational Engineering, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Technology

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