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----------------------- REVIEW 1--------------------PAPER: 14
TITLE: Modeling Life as Cognitive Info-Computation
AUTHORS: Gordana Dodig Crnkovic
OVERALL EVALUATION: 5
(strong accept for LNCS publication)
REVIEWER'S CONFIDENCE: 5 (expert)
----------- REVIEW ----------This short article occupies well-trodden ground, attempting to
usefully locate the character of cognition within a computation
related context. The bibliography marks out the familiarity of
the terrain. The technical observations are not worked out in
detail, but some new correspondences and structural connections
make this an interesting and stimulating contribution.
Of course, this is the sort of task, bringing specificity to
broad descriptive approaches, and relevance to technical games,
which makes philosophy such a key ingredient for a conference
with the ambitious multidisciplinary objectives of this
conference.
The article aims to extend the pancomputationalism associated
with names such as Zuse, Fredkin, Wolfram, Chaitin and LLoyd.
The inductive/hierarchical role of such a model is discussed in
some detail. Informational structural realism (cf. Floridi,
Sayre, Stonier) has been highlighted in timely fashion by
Floridi's recent book on The Philosophy of Information, and is
becoming the basic workspace for those attempting to extend a
computational perspective to the complexities of 'reality'.
The transition from a digital ontology to a richer informational
infrastructure, with appropriate computational connectivity, is
less clear. The discussion of different viewpoints is sketchy
(which must be partly due to the page limits, carefully kept to)
but well situated and interesting.
Section 4 touches on extended models of computation, a topic the
author shows no firm grasp of, and the author seems to miss the
main point of Cooper's recent CACM article dealing with
definability as a form of higher order computation, and its
embodiment.
Sections 4 and 5 are key to the conclusions regarding the
computational underpinnings of cognition, and probably need the
talk to explicate properly.
Overall, this is a well-written, and insightful investigation of
a difficult and important topic, and is strongly recommended for
acceptance.
----------------------- REVIEW 2--------------------PAPER: 14
TITLE: Modeling Life as Cognitive Info-Computation
AUTHORS: Gordana Dodig Crnkovic
OVERALL EVALUATION: 3
(accept for LNCS publication)
REVIEWER'S CONFIDENCE: 3 (medium)
-----------REVIEW
This paper offers
and philosophical
propose a new way
----------a clear an engaging analysis of the historical
underpinnings of cognition in an effort to
of looking at how cognition may apply to AI.
It remains unclear, however, how extensively or carefully the
authors have engaged with critiques of what they have proposed.
----------------------- REVIEW 3--------------------PAPER: 14
TITLE: Modeling Life as Cognitive
Info-Computation
AUTHORS: Gordana Dodig Crnkovic
OVERALL EVALUATION: 1
(weak accept for LNCS publication)
REVIEWER'S CONFIDENCE: 4 (high)
----------- REVIEW ----------The paper contributes a selection of position in the discussion
about the role of a concept of cognition in the wider context of
nature as percieved perceived as a computational mechanism.
My understanding is that the authors basically identify the two
concepts: cognition is exactly the congomerate conglomerate of
processes evolved in nature or engineered by sentient beings
which enables agents at any level of size, development or
internal complexity to process information about their
environment and react. Hence bacteria and robots may exhibit
cognitive behavior.
The good thing about such a position is that by kicking the mind
out of the machine, they eliminate at the same time all the
ingredients of theology (someting something actually not observed
or claimed by the authors).
On the other hand it hardly can be considered to be a solution of
the problem since it is basically just the denial of the
existence of the problem itself.
Evidently the problem of the nature of consciousness remains;
phrased otherwise: at which level of sophistication, complexity
or stage of evolution we can ascribe the notion of "being
sentient" to the cognitive processes. The framework as described
does offer a scientific and physics based platform to discuss
such issues.
I must however express my disagreement to the side remark
concerning the nature of the Turing model; once again the authors
make the Wegner-Goldwin error of identifying this model with the
simple finite input - output function use from the standard
textbooks whereas it is evident that Turing had a far more
general use in mind including interaction. In the context of this
submission this is however just a minor side issue.
The paper can definitely be presented; whether inclusion in the
LNCS is waranted is questionable.
Synonyms for "sentience": awareness ; consciousness sense ;
sensation ; sentiency; sensory faculty; faculty ; mental faculty;
module animateness; aliveness; liveness