Floridi's informational structural realist basis for info-computational modelling of cognizing agents

Informational Structural Realism, ISR (Floridi 2008) describes the reality as a complex informational structure for an epistemic agent interacting with the universe by the exchange of data as constraining affordances. In conjunction with Naturalist Computationalism the view that the dynamics of the nature can be understood as computation Floridi’s Informational Structural Realism presents a basis for constructing of the unified framework of Infocomputationalism. In this framework the fundamental mechanism of all natural computation is morphological computation, expressed as a process of information self-organization, with information structure understood in the sense of Floridi’s ISR. Recently, in robotics, morphological computing has been used for decentralized embodied control of robots. In this paper we describe how appropriate body morphology saves information processing (computation) resources as well as enables learning through self-structuring of information in an epistemic, cognizing agent. Universe as Informational Structure with Computational Dynamics for a Cognizing Epistemic Agent For a cognizing (epistemic) agent the structure of reality appears as information according to Floridi’s Informational Structural Realism (Floridi 2003) (Floridi 2008) (Floridi 2011). For an agent (as an information processing system), information is perceived in permanent flow, in a dynamical process of transformation. We know the world as a result of interactions based on information exchange and information self-structuring: Structural objects (clusters of data as relational entities) work epistemologically like constraining affordances: they allow or invite certain constructs (they are affordances for the information system that elaborates them) and resist or impede some others (they are constraints for the same