Morphological Computation as Natural Ecosystem Service for Intelligent Technology

Paper in proceeding, 2022

The basic idea of natural computing is learning from nature. The naturalist framework provides an info-computational architecture for cognizing agents, modeling living organisms as informational structures with computational dynamics. Intrinsic natural information processes can be used as
natural ecosystem services to perform resource-efficient computation, instead of explicitly controlling every step of the computational process. In robotics, morphological computing is using inherent material properties to produce behavior like passive walking or grasping. In general, morphology (structure, shape, form, material) is self-organizing into dynamic structures resulting in growth, development, and decision-making that represent processes of embodied cognition and constitute the naturalized basis of intelligent behavior.