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Morphological Computing as Logic Underlying Cognition in Human, Animal, and Intelligent Machine
Mälardalen University, School of Innovation, Design and Engineering, Embedded Systems. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, 412 96 Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9881-400X
2025 (English)In: Understanding Information and Its Role as a Tool: In Memory of Mark Burgin, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Ltd , 2025, p. 57-85Chapter in book (Other academic)
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This chapter examines the interconnections between logic, epistemology, and sciences within the naturalist tradition. The inherent logic of agency exists in natural processes at various levels, under information exchanges. It applies to humans, animals, and artifactual agents. The common human-centric, natural language-based logic is an example of complex logic evolved by living organisms that already appears in the simplest form at the level of basal cognition of unicellular organisms. Thus, cognitive logic stems from the evolution of physical, chemical, and biological logic. In a computing nature framework with a self-organizing agency, innovative computational frameworks grounded in morphological/physical/natural computation can be used to explain the genesis of human-centered logic through the steps of naturalized logical processes at lower levels of organization. The process of evolution and in particular its formulation as the extended evolutionary synthesis (EES) of living agents is essential for understanding the emergence of human-level logic and the relationship between logic and information processing/computational epistemology. We conclude that more research is needed to elucidate the details of the mechanisms linking natural phenomena with the logic of agency in nature.

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World Scientific Pub Co Pte Ltd , 2025. p. 57-85
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World Scientific Series in Information Studies ; 17
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Philosophy Computer Sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-74695DOI: 10.1142/9789811294921_0003ISBN: 978-981-12-9491-4 (print)ISBN: 978-981-12-9493-8 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mdh-74695DiVA, id: diva2:2017680
Available from: 2025-12-01 Created: 2025-12-01 Last updated: 2025-12-01Bibliographically approved

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