Entropy 19 (7):1-17 (
2017)
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Abstract
The integration of embodied and computational approaches to cognition requires that
non-neural body parts be described as parts of a computing system, which realizes cognitive
processing. In this paper, based on research about morphological computations and the ecology of
vision, I argue that nonneural body parts could be described as parts of a computational system, but
they do not realize computation autonomously, only in connection with some kind of—even in the
simplest form—central control system. Finally, I integrate the proposal defended in the paper with
the contemporary mechanistic approach to wide computation.