Eccentric computational embodiments. Cognitive domestication of external entities

A recent emphasis on the simplification of cognitive and motor tasks generated in organic agents by morphological aspects has favored the construction of appropriate “mimetic bodies”, able to render an accompanied computation simpler, according to a general appeal to the “simplexity” of animal embodied cognition, which represents one of the main quality of organic agents. In this perspective we can clearly see that the concept of computation changes, depending on historical and contextual causes, and we can build an epistemological view that illustrates the “emergence” of new kinds of computations, such as the one regarding morphological computation, I will illustrate in this article. This new perspective shows how the computational domestication of ignorant entities can originate new eccentric cognitive embodiments. Finally, I will provide a short examination of the concepts of paninformationalism and pancomputationalism, showing that the framework of distributed computation is useful to consider those concepts in a more naturalized and prudent perspective, softening ontological or metaphysical considerations. The last section of the article will afford the related problems concerning the epistemological limitations of computational modeling when exploited to simulate the behavior of a physical or a biological system.