Natural/Unconventional Computing and Its Philosophical Significance

Abstract

In this special issue we present a selection of papers from the Symposium on Natural/Unconventional Computing and its Philosophical Significance, held during the AISB/IACAP 2012 World Congress in Birmingham (UK). This article is an editorial, introducing the special issue of the journal with the selected papers and the research program of Natural/Unconventional Computing.

Keywords

• natural computing
• unconventional computing
• computation beyond the Turing limit
• unconventional models of computation