Biological Recursion and Digital Systems
Conceptual Tools for Analysing Man-Machine Interaction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2353015 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paolo Totaro (0000-0001-5098-5600, Instituto de Ciências Sociais Universidade Federal de Alagoas (UFAL), corresponding author), Domenico Ninno (0000-0003-4261-8186, Università di Napoli ‘Federico II’) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 27-49 |
| Publication date | 2020-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theory Culture & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-2764 • E-ISSN: 1460-3616 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0263276420915264 |
| OpenAlex | W3020982957 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 18 |
The theory of numbers, the theory of computation and well-known biological and neurological studies on cognition and consciousness all indicate the concept of recursion as their common denominator. Mathematical recursion owes its meaning and properties to a dual relationship between its results, which always constitute a sequence, and the operator that generated them, which is instead invariant. This article proposes that this duality in recursion originates from the duality between the biological homeostatic equilibrium in living systems and the adaptive physico-chemical changes required to sustain such equilibria. Such duality gives order and meaning to the experiences of a living system. One of the many implications of this innovative perspective is that this duality can decouple computational results from our intuitive order relations, and that this can cause a rarefaction of the capacity of digital systems to convey communication and favour adaptation to the environment
Algorithm · Cognitive science · Consciousness · Dual (grammatical number · Duality (order theory · Epistemology · Invariant (physics · Living systems · Meaning (existential · Pure mathematics · Recursion (computer science · Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms · Computer Science · Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications · Mathematics · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence · Theoretical Computer Science
Formal Organizations
How We Became Posthuman
Recursivity and Contingency
Unthought
Filter Bubble
Preverbal and verbal counting and computation
On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem
Autopoiesis and Cognition
The Semantic Conception of Truth
Cognition Everywhere
Mechanizing the Merc
Algorithms and the Practical World
The Concept of Algorithm as an Interpretative Key of Modern Rationality
Power after Hegemony
High-frequency trading, algorithmic finance and the Flash Crash
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |