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100Semantics of Information as Interactive ComputationProceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Philosophy and Informatics 2008. 2008.Computers today are not only the calculation tools - they are directly (inter)acting in the physical world which itself may be conceived of as the universal computer (Zuse, Fredkin, Wolfram, Chaitin, Lloyd). In expanding its domains from abstract logical symbol manipulation to physical embedded and networked devices, computing goes beyond Church-Turing limit (Copeland, Siegelman, Burgin, Schachter). Computational processes are distributed, reactive, interactive, agent-based and concurrent. …Read more
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96Computation, Information, Cognition: The Nexus and the Liminal.f (edited book)Cambridge Scholars Press. 2007.Written by world-leading experts, this book draws together a number of important strands in contemporary approaches to the philosophical and scientific questions that emerge when dealing with the issues of computing, information, cognition and the conceptual issues that arise at their intersections. It discovers and develops the connections at the borders and in the interstices of disciplines and debates. This volume presents a range of essays that deal with the currently vigorous concerns of th…Read more
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94Sharing Moral Responsibility with Robots: A Pragmatic Approach.In Anders Holst, Per Kreuger & Peter Funk (eds.), Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications Volume 173, Ios Press Books. 2008.Roboethics is a recently developed field of applied ethics which deals with the ethical aspects of technologies such as robots, ambient intelligence, direct neural interfaces and invasive nano-devices and intelligent soft bots. In this article we look specifically at the issue of (moral) responsibility in artificial intelligent systems. We argue for a pragmatic approach, where responsibility is seen as a social regulatory mechanism. We claim that having a system which takes care of certain…Read more
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82Cognitive revolution, virtuality and good lifeAI and Society 28 (3): 319-327. 2013.We are living in an era when the focus of human relationships with the world is shifting from execution and physical impact to control and cognitive/informational interaction. This emerging, increasingly informational world is our new ecology, an infosphere that presents the grounds for a cognitive revolution based on interactions in networks of biological and artificial, intelligent agents. After the industrial revolution, which extended the human body through mechanical machinery, the cognitiv…Read more
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74Alan Turing's Legacy: Info-Computational Philosophy of NatureIn Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic Raffaela Giovagnoli (ed.), Computing Nature, Springer. pp. 115--123. 2013.Alan Turing’s pioneering work on computability, and his ideas on morphological computing support Andrew Hodges’ view of Turing as a natural philosopher. Turing’s natural philosophy differs importantly from Galileo’s view that the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics (The Assayer, 1623). Computing is more than a language used to describe nature as computation produces real time physical behaviors. This article presents the framework of Natural info-computationalism as a contem…Read more
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73Physical Computation and Cognitive Science, by Nir Fresco: Heidelberg: Springer, 2014, pp. xxii + 229, 99,99€ (review)Australasian Journal of Philosophy 94 (2): 396-399. 2016.This is review of the book "Physical Computation and Cognitive Science" by Nir Fresco: http://www.springer.com/la/book/9783642413742
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71Contemporary Natural Philosophy and PhilosophiesPhilosophies 3 (4): 42--0. 2018.In this Editorial note, Guest Editors introduce the theme of the Special Issue of the journal Philosophies, titled Contemporary Natural Philosophy and Philosophies.
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58Game ethics-Homo Ludens as a computer game designer and consumerInternational Review of Information Ethics 4 (12): 19-23. 2005.Play and games are among the basic means of expression in intelligent communication, influenced by the relevant cultural environment. Games have found a natural expression in the contemporary computer era in which communications are increasingly mediated by computing technology. The widespread use of e-games results in conceptual and policy vacuums that must be examined and understood. Humans involved in design-ing, administering, selling, playing etc. computer games encounter new situations in …Read more
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55The Cybersemiotics and Info-Computationalist Research ProgrammesEntropy 12 (4): 878-901. 2010.Both Cybersemiotics and Info-computationalist research programmes represent attempts to unify understanding of information, knowledge and communication. The first one takes into account phenomenological aspects of signification which are insisting on the human experience "from within". The second adopts solely the view "from the outside" based on scientific practice, with an observing agent generating inter-subjective knowledge in a research community. The process of knowledge production, embodi…Read more
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52Togetherness and respect: ethical concerns of privacy in Global Web SocietiesAI and Society 20 (3): 372-383. 2006.Today’s computer network technologies are sociologically founded on hunter-gatherer principles; common users may be possible subjects of surveillance and sophisticated internet-based attacks are almost impossible to prevent. At the same time, information and communication technology, ICT offers the technical possibility of embedded privacy protection. Making technology legitimate by design is a part of the intentional design for democracy. This means incorporating options for socially acceptable…Read more
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51Constructivist Research and Info-Computational Knowledge GenerationIn Lorenzo Magnani, Walter Carnielli & Claudio Pizzi (eds.), MODEL-BASED REASONING IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, Springer. 2010.It is usual when writing on research methodology in dissertations and thesis work within Software Engineering to refer to Empirical Methods, Grounded Theory and Action Research. Analysis of Constructive Research Methods which are fundamental for all knowledge production and especially for concept formation, modeling and the use of artifacts is seldom given, so the relevant first-hand knowledge is missing. This article argues for introducing of the analysis of Constructive Research Methods, as cr…Read more
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50Floridi’s “Open Problems in Philosophy of Information”, Ten Years LaterInformation 2 (2): 327-359. 2011.In his article Open Problems in the Philosophy of Information 1 Luciano Floridi presented a Philosophy of Information research program in the form of eighteen open problems, covering the following fundamental areas: Information definition, information semantics, intelligence/cognition, informational universe/nature and values/ethics. We revisit Floridis program, highlighting some of the major advances, commenting on unsolved problems and rendering the new landscape of the Philosophy of Informati…Read more
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45Representation of Reality: Humans, Other Living Organism and Intelligent Machines (edited book)Springer. 2017.In this book the editors invited prominent researchers with different perspectives and deep insights into the various facets of the relationship between reality and representation in the following three classes of agent: in humans, in other living beings, and in machines. The book enriches our views on representation and deepens our understanding of its different aspects, a question that connects philosophy, computer science, logic, anthropology, psychology, sociology, neuroscience, linguist…Read more
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43The book presents investigations into the world of info-computational nature, in which information constitutes the structure, while computational process amounts to its change. Information and computation are inextricably bound: There is no computation without informational structure, and there is no information without computational process. Those two complementary ideas are used to build a conceptual net, which according to Novalis is a theoretical way of capturing reality. We apprehend the re…Read more
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42Epistemology as Computation (Information Processing)In Christian Calude (ed.), Randomness & Complexity, From Leibniz to Chaitin, World Scientific Pub Co. 2007.This essay presents arguments for the claim that in the best of all possible worlds (Leibniz) there are sources of unpredictability and creativity for us humans, even given a pancomputational stance. A suggested answer to Chaitin’s questions: “Where do new mathematical and biological ideas come from? How do they emerge?” is that they come from the world and emerge from basic physical (computational) laws. For humans as a tiny subset of the universe, a…Read more
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38Empirical modeling and information semanticsMind and Society 7 (2): 157-166. 2008.This paper investigates the relationship between reality and model, information and truth. It will argue that meaningful data need not be true in order to constitute information. Information to which truth-value cannot be ascribed, partially true information or even false information can lead to an interesting outcome such as technological innovation or scientific breakthrough. In the research process, during the transition between two theoretical frameworks, there is a dynamic mixture of old an…Read more
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35Empirical Modeling and Information SemanticsMind & Society. 2008.http://www.springerlink.com/content/45454q54j3151304/fulltext.pdf.
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35Investigations into Information Semantics and Ethics of ComputingDissertation, Mälardalen. 2005.The recent development of the research field of Computing and Philosophy has triggered investigations into the theoretical foundations of computing and information. This thesis consists of two parts which are the result of studies in two areas of Philosophy of Computing and Philosophy of Information regarding the production of meaning and the value system with applications. The first part develops a unified dual-aspect theory of information and computation, in which information is characterized …Read more
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35Reality Construction in Cognitive Agents through Processes of Info-ComputationIn Dodge Crnkovic Gordana & Giovagnoli Rafaela (eds.), Representation and Reality in Humans, Animals and Machines, Springer. 2017.Some intriguing questions such as: What is reality for an agent? How does reality of a bacterium differ from a reality of a human brain? Do we need representation in order to understand reality? are still widely debated. Starting with the presentation of the computing nature as an info-computational framework, where information is defined as a structure, and computation as information processing, we address questions of evolution of increasingly comp…Read more
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34Computing Nature–A Network of Networks of Concurrent Information ProcessesIn Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic Raffaela Giovagnoli (ed.), Computing Nature, . pp. 1--22. 2013.This text presents the research field of natural/unconventional computing as it appears in the book COMPUTING NATURE. The articles discussed consist a selection of works from the Symposium on Natural Computing at AISB-IACAP (British Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour and The International Association for Computing and Philosophy) World Congress 2012, held at the University of Birmingham, celebrating Turing centenary. The COMPUTING NATURE is about nat…Read more
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20Reality Construction in Cognitive Agents Through Processes of Info-computationIn Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic & Raffaela Giovagnoli (eds.), Representation of Reality: Humans, Other Living Organism and Intelligent Machines, Springer. pp. 211-232. 2017.What is reality for an agent? What is minimal cognition? How does the morphology of a cognitive agent affect cognition? These are still open questions among scientists and philosophers. In this chapter we propose the idea of info-computational nature as a framework for answering those questions. Within the info-computational framework, information is defined as a structure, and computation as the dynamics of information. To an agent, nature therefore appears as an informational structure with co…Read more
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19Computing Nature: Turing Centenary PerspectiveSpringer. 2013.This book is about nature considered as the totality of physical existence, the universe, and our present day attempts to understand it.
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13A Systematic Approach to Autonomous AgentsPhilosophies 9 (2): 44. 2024.Agents and agent-based systems are becoming essential in the development of various fields, such as artificial intelligence, ubiquitous computing, ambient intelligence, autonomous computing, and intelligent robotics. The concept of autonomous agents, inspired by the observed agency in living systems, is also central to current theories on the origin, development, and evolution of life. Therefore, it is crucial to develop an accurate understanding of agents and the concept of agency. This paper b…Read more
Gordana Dodig Crnkovic
Chalmers University of Technology
Mälardalen University
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Chalmers University of TechnologyProfessor
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Mälardalen UniversityProfessor (Part-time)
Lidingö, Stockholms län, Sweden
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Computing and Information |
General Philosophy of Science |