Received: 16 May, 2005. Accepted: 10 July, 2005.

Presented at DECOS 2005.

SUMMARY

The paper deals with the problems encountered in exploring/describing cognising systems. It is argued that these are mostly an issue of epistemology and that some of the aspects of the above mentioned systems cannot be described without taking into account the researcher's participation in the process of researching (and describing).

KEY WORDS

living systems, non-trivial machines

CLASSIFICATION

APA:	2340
PACS:	89.65.-s