Information and Computation

Information is a basic structure of the world, while computation is a process of the dynamic change of information. This book provides a cutting-edge view of world's leading authorities in fields where information and computation play a central role. It sketches the contours of the future landscape for the development of our understanding of information and computation, their mutual relationship and the role in cognition, informatics, biology, artificial intelligence, and information technology.

Cybersemiotics and the Question of Knowledge (S Brier); Information Dynamics in a Categorical Setting (M Burgin); Mathematics as Biological Process (G Chaitin); Information, Computation, Measurement and Irreversibility (J Collier); From Descartes to Turing: The Computational Content of Supervenience (B Cooper); On the Algorithmic Nature of the World (J-P Delahaye & H Zenil); A Dialogue Concerning Two Possible World Systems (G Dodig-Crnkovic & V Mueller); Does Computing Embrace Self-Organization? (W Hofkirchner); Analysis of Information and Computation in Physics Explains Cognitive Paradigms: From Full Cognition to Laplace Determinism to Statistical Determinism to Modern Approach (V Kreinovich & R Araiza); Bodies - Both Informed and Transformed (B J MacLennan); Computation on Information, Meaning and Representations, an Evolutionary Approach (C Menant); Interior Grounding, Reflection, and Self-Consciousness (M Minsky); Insights into the Biological Computing (W Riofrio); Super-Recursive Features of Natural Evolvability Processes and the Models for Computational Evolution (D Roglic); A Sketch of a Modeling View of Computing (O Shagrir); What's Information, for an Organism or Intelligent Machine? How Can a Machine or Organism Mean? (A Sloman); Inconsistent Information as a Natural Phenomenon (C N J de Vey Mestdagh & J H Hoepman);