Eco-Cognitive Computationalism: Cognitive Domestication of Ignorant Entities

The book explores the widespread distribution of computational tools, models, and methods and emphasizes the cognitive domestication of ignorant entities. It proposes an eco-cognitive computationalism approach that aims to understand the emergence and modification of information, cognition, and computation. It also highlights the distinction between weak and strong levels of creative "abductive" hypothetical cognition, with weak accomplishments related to locked abductive strategies and deep creativity associated with unlocked abductive strategies.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 106 pages
Publication date: 01 September 2022
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG

This book delves into the pervasive distribution of computational tools, models, and methods, highlighting their crucial role in the modern significance of computational machines as cognitive intermediaries. It presents an entirely novel eco-cognitive perspective on computation, emphasizing the ongoing cognitive domestication of ignorant entities in contemporary societies. Eco-cognitive computationalism does not seek to provide a definitive and static definition of information, cognition, and computation but rather aims to establish an intellectual framework that captures their historical and dynamic nature. By respecting their evolving characteristics, it proposes an approach that elucidates how we can comprehend the emergence of these concepts and their subsequent modifications, encompassing impressive non-digital cases. Furthermore, this new perspective leads to a clear delineation of the distinction between weak and strong levels of creative "abductive" hypothetical cognition. Weak accomplishments are associated with "locked abductive strategies," commonly found in computational machines, while deep creativity is linked to "unlocked abductive strategies," which characterize human cognizers who benefit from the so-called "eco-cognitive openness."

This book delves into the pervasive distribution of computational tools, models, and methods, highlighting their crucial role in the modern significance of computational machines as cognitive intermediaries. It presents an entirely novel eco-cognitive perspective on computation, emphasizing the ongoing cognitive domestication of ignorant entities in contemporary societies. Eco-cognitive computationalism does not seek to provide a definitive and static definition of information, cognition, and computation but rather aims to establish an intellectual framework that captures their historical and dynamic nature. By respecting their evolving characteristics, it proposes an approach that elucidates how we can comprehend the emergence of these concepts and their subsequent modifications, encompassing impressive non-digital cases. Furthermore, this new perspective leads to a clear delineation of the distinction between weak and strong levels of creative "abductive" hypothetical cognition. Weak accomplishments are associated with "locked abductive strategies," commonly found in computational machines, while deep creativity is linked to "unlocked abductive strategies," which characterize human cognizers who benefit from the so-called "eco-cognitive openness."

Weight: 203g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783030814496
Edition number: 1st ed. 2022