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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Science
  • Philosophy of Information
  • Philosophy of Computing

Background:

  • Special issues of Entropy journal focused on "Information-Processing and Embodied, Embedded, Enactive Cognition."
  • Research community holds diverse views on computation and its relation to cognition.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Elucidate current debates on computation central to cognitive science.
  • Present opposing viewpoints on the nature of computation and its link to cognition.

Main Methods:

  • Socratic dialogue between two researchers with diverse backgrounds (physics, philosophy, cognitive science).
  • Proponent (GDC) introduces the info-computational framework for embodied cognition.
  • Critic (MM) raises objections from the new mechanistic approach.

Main Results:

  • The dialogue highlights the diversity of perspectives on computation in cognitive science.
  • The info-computational framework is presented as a naturalistic model.
  • Objections are raised and discussed from a mechanistic viewpoint.

Conclusions:

  • Information processing is fundamental to understanding embodied cognition.
  • The paper clarifies central debates on computation within cognitive science.