Modeling Life as Cognitive Info-computation

Dodig-Crnković, Gordana

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-08019-2_16

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“…Therefore, we are forced to adopt a physical interpretation of the transport of information that cannot rest only on the role of crucial events. Nevertheless, we think that this paper affords an important contribution to the revolution occurring in biology [1,3,4]. This is so because, first of all, to the best of our knowledge, in the current literature no research work has revealed the existence of crucial events in germination processes.…”

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confidence: 88%

“…In addition, the single cell itself is an intelligent system and the brain should not be interpreted as a supercomputer but rather as "an entire community of supercomputers " [3]. Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic [4] points out that although until recently intelligence was considered a property of human beings, but now due to the autopoiesis of Maturana and Varela [5] cognition should be extended to all biological systems. This observation has the impressive effect of marking the breakdown of separation between different disciplines.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Biophotons: low signal/noise ratio reveals crucial events

Benfatto

Pace

Curceanu

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We study the emission of photons from germinating seeds using an experimental technique designed to detect photons of extremely small intensity when the signal/noise ratio is low. We analyze the dark count signal in the absence of germinating seeds as well as the photon emission during the germination process. The technique of analysis adopted here was originally designed to measure the temporal complexity of astrophysical, sociological and physiological processes. The foundation of this method, called Diffusion Entropy Analysis (DEA), rests on Kolmogorov complexity. The updated version of DEA used in this paper is designed to determine if the signal complexity is generated by either non-ergodic crucial events with a non-stationary correlation function or by the infinite memory of a stationary but non-integrable correlation function or by a mixture of both processes. We find that dark count yields the ordinary scaling, thereby showing that no complexity of either kinds may occur in the absence of any seeds in the chamber. In the presence of seeds in the chamber anomalous scaling emerges, reminiscent of that found in neuro-physiological processes. However, this is a mixture of both processes and with the progress of germination the non-ergodic component tends to vanish and complexity is dominated by the stationary infinite memory. We argue that this may be a sign of quantum coherence that according to some authors is the important ingredient of cognition.

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confidence: 88%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Biophotons: low signal/noise ratio reveals crucial events

Benfatto

Pace

Curceanu

et al. 2019

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“…However, in the self-referential frame, any assessment of information is a measurement [ 38 , 39 ]. Self-referential cells are cognitive and must actively evaluate sensory information to sustain their homeostatic equipoise [ 21 , 22 , 23 , 83 , 91 , 92 , 93 , 94 , 95 , 96 , 97 , 98 , 99 , 100 ]. Cognitive cells must measure since their sensory information is imprecise.…”

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Biomolecular Basis of Cellular Consciousness via Subcellular Nanobrains

Baluška

Miller

Reber

2021

IJMS

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Cells emerged at the very beginning of life on Earth and, in fact, are coterminous with life. They are enclosed within an excitable plasma membrane, which defines the outside and inside domains via their specific biophysical properties. Unicellular organisms, such as diverse protists and algae, still live a cellular life. However, fungi, plants, and animals evolved a multicellular existence. Recently, we have developed the cellular basis of consciousness (CBC) model, which proposes that all biological awareness, sentience and consciousness are grounded in general cell biology. Here we discuss the biomolecular structures and processes that allow for and maintain this cellular consciousness from an evolutionary perspective.

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“…Maturana and Varela were the first to propose that the life itself can be understood as a process of cognition [32,33]. Building on Maturana and Varela's understanding of cognition the author proposed an infocomputational constructive framework [18,[34][35][36][37] with the aim to explain how increasingly complex structures develop as a result of information processing in nature. These information processes can be modeled as natural morphological computation, in the network of networks of physical processes where constant exchange (communication) of data (signals) among agents establishes new structures on physical, chemical and biological levels.…”

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Nature as a network of morphological infocomputational processes for cognitive agents

Dodig-Crnković

2017

Eur. Phys. J. Spec. Top.

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Abstract. This paper presents a view of nature as a network of infocomputational agents organized in a dynamical hierarchy of levels. It provides a framework for unification of currently disparate understandings of natural, formal, technical, behavioral and social phenomena based on information as a structure, differences in one system that cause the differences in another system, and computation as its dynamics, i.e. physical process of morphological change in the informational structure. We address some of the frequent misunderstandings regarding the natural/morphological computational models and their relationships to physical systems, especially cognitive systems such as living beings. Natural morphological infocomputation as a conceptual framework necessitates generalization of models of computation beyond the traditional Turing machine model presenting symbol manipulation, and requires agent-based concurrent resource-sensitive models of computation in order to be able to cover the whole range of phenomena from physics to cognition. The central role of agency, particularly material vs. cognitive agency is highlighted. The necessity of an agent/observer/actor for generation of knowledgeInformation is a concept known for its multiplicity of use and ambiguity in both common, everyday application and in its specific formal definitions throughout different fields of research. However, most people are unaware that matter/energy today is also a concept with uncertain content. Matter that for Democritus was substance of the whole universe, appears today to constitute only 4% of its observed content [1]. The rest constituting 96% is labeled "dark matter" (conjectured to explain gravitational effects otherwise unaccounted for) and "dark energy" (introduced to account for the expansion of the universe). We do not know what "dark matter" and "dark energy" actually are. This indicates that our present understanding of the structure of the physical world might need re-examination. By connecting two ambiguous and currently much discussed ideas -information and matter/energy -can we hope to a

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Modeling Life as Cognitive Info-computation

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Biophotons: low signal/noise ratio reveals crucial events

Biophotons: low signal/noise ratio reveals crucial events

Biomolecular Basis of Cellular Consciousness via Subcellular Nanobrains

Nature as a network of morphological infocomputational processes for cognitive agents

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