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Scale-Free Communication - Semantics Study
No full textResults of the study on semantics of biological communicatio
Scale-Free Communication - Semantics Study
No full textResults of the study on semantics of biological communicatio
Scale-Free Communication - online supplement
No full textOnline supplement containing data, trained topic models and visualisations used for my PhD Dissertation "Scale-Free Communication? An investigation of the use of the concept "communication" in biology and cognitive sciences", prepared under the supervision of prof. Joanna Rączaszek-Leonardi and prof. Marcin Miłkowski, submitted in December 2025
Counting with Cilia: The Role of Morphological Computation in Basal Cognition Research
Get PDF“Morphological computation” is an increasingly important concept in robotics, artificial intelligence, and philosophy of the mind. It is used to understand how the body contributes to cognition and control of behavior. Its understanding in terms of "offloading" computation from the brain to the body has been criticized as misleading, and it has been suggested that the use of the concept conflates three classes of distinct processes. In fact, these criticisms implicitly hang on accepting a semantic definition of what constitutes computation. Here, I argue that an alternative, mechanistic view on computation offers a significantly different understanding of what morphological computation is. These theoretical considerations are then used to analyze the existing research program in developmental biology, which understands morphogenesis, the process of development of shape in biological systems, as a computational process. This important line of research shows that cognition and intelligence can be found across all scales of life, as the proponents of the basal cognition research program propose. Hence, clarifying the connection between morphological computation and morphogenesis allows for strengthening the role of the former concept in this emerging research field
Empirical evidence in conceptual engineering, or the defense of 'predictive understanding'
No full textThe advent of digital philosophy of science—the practice of employing large textual datasets together with text mining and natural language processing tools for asking questions in philosophy of science—has dramatically shifted philosophers’ ability to account for the scientific practice, without relying on small and often arbitrary samples of the literature. The methodological issues that come with this novel approach have been traditionally discussed around the necessary choice between using these methods for discovery and exploration of new philosophical hypothesis, and the testing of existing stances. In this chapter, we propose a different path that remains hitherto underexplored in digital philosophy: namely, one offered by conceptual engineering. We provide general methodological guidelines for using digital tools in the study of scientific literature for the purpose of clarifying and honing existing philosophical concepts. To substantiate this position, we draw examples from existing research which has hinted at this approach, and apply our proposed methodology to the notion of “understanding” in the scientific practice to show how it can help researchers across subdisciplines of philosophy apply this concept usefully, including in the philosophy of artificial intelligence
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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