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In this study we make an intensive use of the concept synergetic computer (SC). We’ve referred to it above as means to interpret empirical findings (Chap. 3) and as means to reformulate Shannon’s communication system in terms of a complex system (Chap. 4), and we’ll further use it below (Chaps. 6–8) to develop our notion of information adaptation. In this chapter we shortly introduce the SC and relate it to some philosophical and technical issues associated with its usage. In a way of introduction we can say that the SC is a kind of conceptual machine similar in several ways to the Turing machine, on the one hand and to Shannon’s machinery (his communication system), on the other; hence the title of this chapter—“on synergetic computers and other machines”.
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Haken, H., Portugali, J. (2015). On Synergetic Computers and Other Machines. In: Information Adaptation: The Interplay Between Shannon Information and Semantic Information in Cognition. SpringerBriefs in Complexity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11170-4_5
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