International Journal of Robotics Research
Intelligence without representation
Artificial Intelligence
Towards a theory of emergent functionality
Proceedings of the first international conference on simulation of adaptive behavior on From animals to animats
Evolving visually guided robots
Proceedings of the second international conference on From animals to animats 2 : simulation of adaptive behavior: simulation of adaptive behavior
Understanding intelligence
Being There: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again
Being There: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again
Basic autonomy as a fundamental step in the synthesis of life
Artificial Life
Agency in Natural and Artificial Systems
Artificial Life
Principles of Minimal Cognition: Casting Cognition as Sensorimotor Coordination
Adaptive Behavior - Animals, Animats, Software Agents, Robots, Adaptive Systems
On What Makes Certain Dynamical Systems Cognitive: A Minimally Cognitive Organization Program
Adaptive Behavior - Animals, Animats, Software Agents, Robots, Adaptive Systems
Is an embodied system ever purely reactive?
ECAL'05 Proceedings of the 8th European conference on Advances in Artificial Life
Enactive artificial intelligence: Investigating the systemic organization of life and mind
Artificial Intelligence
Integrating Autopoiesis and Behavior: An Exploration in Computational Chemo-ethology
Adaptive Behavior - Animals, Animats, Software Agents, Robots, Adaptive Systems
Norm-establishing and norm-following in autonomous agency
Artificial Life
Motility at the origin of life: Its characterization and a model
Artificial Life
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In this article, we propose some fundamental requirements for the appearance of adaptivity. We argue that a basic metabolic organization, taken in its minimal sense, may provide the conceptual framework for naturalizing the origin of teleology and normative functionality as it appears in living systems. However, adaptivity also requires the emergence of a regulatory subsystem, which implies a certain form of dynamic decoupling within a globally integrated, autonomous system. Thus, we analyze several forms of minimal adaptivity, including the special case of motility. We go on to explain how an open-ended complexity growth of motility-based adaptive agency, namely, behavior, requires the appearance of the nervous system. Finally, we discuss some implications of these ideas for embodied robotics.