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.
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Nowakowski, P. R. (2017). Bodily processing: The role of morphological computation. Entropy, 19(7). https://doi.org/10.3390/e19070295
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