Representation and reality in humans, other living organisms and intelligent machines

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"This book enriches our views on representation and deepens our understanding of its different aspects. It arises out of several years of dialog between the editors and the authors, an interdisciplinary team of highly experienced researchers, and it reflects the best contemporary view of representation and reality in humans, other living beings, and intelligent machines.  Structured into parts on the cognitive, computational, natural sciences, philosophical, logical, and machine perspectives, a theme of the field and the book is building and presenting networks, and the editors hope that the contributed chapters will spur understanding and collaboration between researchers in domains such as computer science, philosophy, logic, systems theory, engineering, psychology, sociology, anthropology, neuroscience, linguistics, and synthetic biology."-- Read more... Abstract: "This book enriches our views on representation and deepens our understanding of its different aspects. It arises out of several years of dialog between the editors and the authors, an interdisciplinary team of highly experienced researchers, and it reflects the best contemporary view of representation and reality in humans, other living beings, and intelligent machines.  Structured into parts on the cognitive, computational, natural sciences, philosophical, logical, and machine perspectives, a theme of the field and the book is building and presenting networks, and the editors hope that the contributed chapters will spur understanding and collaboration between researchers in domains such as computer science, philosophy, logic, systems theory, engineering, psychology, sociology, anthropology, neuroscience, linguistics, and synthetic biology." Front Matter ....Pages i-xvi Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Information and Reference (Terrence W. Deacon)....Pages 3-15 Modelling Empty Representations: The Case of Computational Models of Hallucination (Marcin Miłkowski)....Pages 17-32 Life is Precious Because it is Precarious: Individuality, Mortality and the Problem of Meaning (Tom Froese)....Pages 33-50 Language Processing, Computational Representational Theory of Mind and Embodiment: Inferences on Verbs (J. Ezquerro, M. Iza)....Pages 51-65 Front Matter ....Pages 67-67 Knowledge, Representation and the Dynamics of Computation (Jan van Leeuwen, Jiří Wiedermann)....Pages 69-89 Abstraction and Representation in Living Organisms: When Does a Biological System Compute? (Dominic Horsman, Viv Kendon, Susan Stepney, J. P. W. Young)....Pages 91-116 The Information-Theoretic and Algorithmic Approach to Human, Animal, and Artificial Cognition (Nicolas Gauvrit, Hector Zenil, Jesper Tegnér)....Pages 117-139 Using Computational Models of Object Recognition to Investigate Representational Change Through Development (Dean Petters, John Hummel, Martin Jüttner, Elley Wakui, Jules Davidoff)....Pages 141-173 Front Matter ....Pages 175-175 The Quantum Field Theory (QFT) Dual Paradigm in Fundamental Physics and the Semantic Information Content and Measure in Cognitive Sciences (Gianfranco Basti)....Pages 177-210 Reality Construction in Cognitive Agents Through Processes of Info-computation (Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, Rickard von Haugwitz)....Pages 211-232 Front Matter ....Pages 233-233 The Relevance of Language for the Problem of Representation (Raffaela Giovagnoli)....Pages 235-245 Consciousness and Hyletics in Humans, Animals and Machines (Angela Ales Bello)....Pages 247-260 Matter, Representation and Motion in the Phenomenology of the Mind (Roberta Lanfredini)....Pages 261-276 Front Matter ....Pages 277-277 From the Structures of Opposition Between Similarity and Dissimilarity Indicators to Logical Proportions (Henri Prade, Gilles Richard)....Pages 279-299 A “Distinctive” Logic for Ontologies and Semantic Search Engines (Ferdinando Cavaliere)....Pages 301-318 Being Aware of Rational Animals (Jean-Yves Beziau)....Pages 319-331 Front Matter ....Pages 333-333 Simple or Complex Bodies? Trade-offs in Exploiting Body Morphology for Control (Matej Hoffmann, Vincent C. Müller)....Pages 335-345 On the Realism of Human and Machine Representational Constraints: A Functionalist Account on Cognitive Ontologies (David Zarebski)....Pages 347-363 Would Super-Human Machine Intelligence Really Be Super-Human? (Philip Larrey)....Pages 365-378