INFORMATION AND COMPUTATION<br>Essays on Scientific and Philosophical Understanding of Foundations of Information and Computation

INFORMATION AND COMPUTATION
Essays on Scientific and Philosophical Understanding of Foundations of Information and Computation

CONTENTS


FRONT MATTER Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic and Mark Burgin	i
CYBERSEMIOTICS AND THE QUESTION OF KNOWLEDGE Søren Brier	1
INFORMATION DYNAMICS IN A CATEGORICAL SETTING Mark Burgin	35
MATHEMATICS AS A BIOLOGICAL PROCESS G. J. Chaitin	79
INFORMATION, CAUSATION AND COMPUTATION John Collier	89
FROM DESCARTES TO TURING: THE COMPUTATIONAL CONTENT OF SUPERVENIENCE S. Barry Cooper	107
A DIALOGUE CONCERNING TWO WORLD SYSTEMS: INFO-COMPUTATIONAL VS. MECHANISTIC Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic and Vincent C. Müller	149
DOES COMPUTING EMBRACE SELF-ORGANIZATION? Wolfgang Hofkirchner	185
ANALYSIS OF INFORMATION AND COMPUTATION IN PHYSICS EXPLAINS COGNITIVE PARADIGMS: FROM FULL COGNITION TO LAPLACE DETERMINISM TO STATISTICAL DETERMINISM TO MODERN APPROACH Vladik Kreinovich, Roberto Araiza and Juan Ferret	203
BODIES — BOTH INFORMED AND TRANSFORMED EMBODIED COMPUTATION AND INFORMATION PROCESSING Bruce J. MacLennan	225
COMPUTATION ON INFORMATION, MEANING AND REPRESENTATIONS. AN EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH Christophe Menant	255
INTERIOR GROUNDING, REFLECTION, AND SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS Marvin Minsky	287
A MOLECULAR DYNAMIC NETWORK: MINIMAL PROPERTIES AND EVOLUTIONARY IMPLICATIONS Walter Riofrio	307
SUPER-RECURSIVE FEATURES OF EVOLUTIONARY PROCESSES AND THE MODELS FOR COMPUTATIONAL EVOLUTION Darko Roglic	331
TOWARDS A MODELING VIEW OF COMPUTING Oron Shagrir	381
WHAT'S INFORMATION, FOR AN ORGANISM OR INTELLIGENT MACHINE? HOW CAN A MACHINE OR ORGANISM MEAN? Aaron Sloman	393
INCONSISTENT KNOWLEDGE AS A NATURAL PHENOMENON: THE RANKING OF REASONABLE INFERENCES AS A COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH TO NATURALLY INCONSISTENT (LEGAL) THEORIES Kees (C.N.J.) de Vey Mestdagh and Jaap Henk (J.H.) Hoepman	439
ON THE ALGORITHMIC NATURE OF THE WORLD Hector Zenil and Jean-Paul Delahaye	477
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