Representation and Reality in Humans, Other Living Organisms and Intelligent Machines

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Dodig-Crnkovic, Gordana (Editor), Giovagnoli, Raffaela (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics, 28
• Subjects: Computer science.; Philosophy and science.; Artificial intelligence.; Computational intelligence.; Computer Science.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Philosophy of Science.; Computational Intelligence.

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 representati...

Table of Contents:

• Life Versus Engineering
• Representation in Signal Processing in Biological Systems
• The Realism of Human and Machine Cognitive Ontologies
• Visual Representations for Object Recognition
• Semantic Information Content and Measure in Cognitive Sciences
• Reality Construction in Cognitive Agent Through Infocomputation
• Modelling Empty Representations
• Cognition, Information and Subjective Computation
• Information Integration
• The Social Dimension of Human Representation
• Mind and Machine
• Exploiting Body Morphology for Control
• A Logic for Ontologies and Semantic Search Engines
• Models, Maps and Metaphors
• Matter, Representation and Motion in the Phenomenology of the Mind
• Enactive Criticisms of Infocomputationalism
• Rationality and Representation.