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

Reflects received view in empirical science that there is something we can call 'reality' for an agent, and that agents use 'representations' in their interactions with the environment

Examines what capacities can be plausibly computed and discusses the most promising approaches

Looks for a common link between reality-constructing agents, such as humans, and other living organisms

Inhalt
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.