  Alan Turing's pioneering work on computability, and his ideas on
morphological computing support Andrew Hodges' view of Turing as a natural
philosopher. Turing's natural philosophy differs importantly from Galileo's
view that the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics (The
Assayer, 1623). Computing is more than a language of nature as computation
produces real time physical behaviors. This article presents the framework of
Natural Info-computationalism as a contemporary natural philosophy that builds
on the legacy of Turing's computationalism. Info-computationalism is a
synthesis of Informational Structural Realism (the view that nature is a web of
informational structures) and Natural Computationalism (the view that nature
physically computes its own time development). It presents a framework for the
development of a unified approach to nature, with common interpretation of
inanimate nature as well as living organisms and their social networks.
Computing is understood as information processing that drives all the changes
on different levels of organization of information and can be modeled as
morphological computing on data sets pertinent to informational structures. The
use of infocomputational conceptualizations, models and tools makes possible
for the first time in history the study of complex selforganizing adaptive
systems, including basic characteristics and functions of living systems,
intelligence, and cognition.
