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The New Computationalism – A Lesson from Embodied Agents

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Part of the book series: Studies in Computational Intelligence ((SCI,volume 243))

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Computationalism is traditionally considered in the context of cognitive science as perhaps the dominant contemporary approach to understand cognition and cognitive phenomena. It consists in application of concepts and methods of theoretical computer science for understanding and (re)constructing phenomena appearing in much broader fields of science, including the natural sciences and also economics, and some other branches of social sciences. The contribution sketches this new situation, and provides an example of a theoretical model rooted in the traditional computationalism which reflects some new requirements.

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  1. Institute of Computer Science, Silesian University, Opava Czech Republic and College of Management, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Jozef Kelemen

  2. Institute of Computer Science, Silesian University, Opava, Czech Republic and Department of Informatics, Catholic University, Ružomberok, Slovakia

    Alica Kelemenová

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  1. John von Neumann Fac. Informatics, Dept. Intelligent Engineering Systems, Budapest Tech., 1034, Budapest, Hungary

    Imre J. Rudas  & János Fodor  & 

  2. Systems Research Instiute, PAN Warszawa, Newelska 6, 01-447, Warszawa, Poland

    Janusz Kacprzyk

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Kelemen, J., Kelemenová, A. (2009). The New Computationalism – A Lesson from Embodied Agents. In: Rudas, I.J., Fodor, J., Kacprzyk, J. (eds) Towards Intelligent Engineering and Information Technology. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 243. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03737-5_4

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