Eccentric Computational Embodiments:Cognitive Domestication of External Entities

摘要

The emphasis on the simplification of cognitive and motor tasks by recent results of morphological computation has rendered possible the construction of appropriate“mimetic bodies”able to render accompanied computations simpler,according to a general appeal to the“simplexity”of animal embodied cognition.A new activity of what we can call“distributed computation”holds the promise of originating a new generation of robots with better adaptability and restricted number of required control parameters.The framework of distributed computation helps us see them in a more naturalized and prudent perspective,avoiding ontological or metaphysical considerations.Despite these progresses,there are still problems regarding the epistemological limitations of computational modeling remain to be solved.