Epistemology Naturalized: The Info-Computationalist Approach
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We will give an account of the naturalized epistemology based on the computational character of cognition and agency -which includes evolutionary approaches to cognition (Lorenz 1977, Popper 1978, Toulmin 1972 and Campbell et al. 1989, Harms 2004). In this framework knowledge is seen as a result of the structuring of input data (data → information → knowledge) by an interactive computational process going on in the nervous system during the adaptive interplay of an agent with the environment, which clearly increases its ability to cope with the dynamics of the world.
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