Computing Nature Turing Centenary Perspective /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Dodig-Crnkovic, Gordana. (Editor), Giovagnoli, Raffaela. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics, 7
• Subjects: Engineering.; Philosophy of mind.; Information theory.; Artificial intelligence.; Computational Intelligence.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Philosophy of Mind.; Theory of Computation.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37225-4

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...

Table of Contents:

• From the 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.-Nature-like Computation and a Measure of Programmability
• Alan Turings Legacy: Info-Computational Philosophy of Nature
• Dualism of Selective and Structural Information in Modelling Dynamics of Information
• Intelligence And Reference. Formal Ontology Of The Natural Computation
• Representation: Analytic Pragmatism and AI
• Salient Features and Key Frames: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Object Representation.