Cambrian intelligence: the early history of the new AI
Cambrian intelligence: the early history of the new AI
Energetically autonomous robots: Food for thought
Autonomous Robots
How the Body Shapes the Way We Think: A New View of Intelligence (Bradford Books)
How the Body Shapes the Way We Think: A New View of Intelligence (Bradford Books)
Shapes and self-movement in protocell systems
Artificial Life
Self-maintained movements of droplets with convection flow
ACAL'07 Proceedings of the 3rd Australian conference on Progress in artificial life
Studying a self-sustainable system by making a mind time machine
Workshop on Self-Sustaining Systems
Motility at the origin of life: Its characterization and a model
Artificial Life
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We have developed a simple chemical system capable of self-movement in order to study the physicochemical origins of movement. We propose how this system may be useful in the study of minimal perception and cognition. The system consists simply of an oil droplet in an aqueous environment. A chemical reaction within the oil droplet induces an instability, the symmetry of the oil droplet breaks, and the droplet begins to move through the aqueous phase. The complement of physical phenomena that is then generated indicates the presence of feedback cycles that, as will be argued, form the basis for self-regulation, homeostasis, and perhaps an extended form of autopoiesis. We discuss the result that simple chemical systems are capable of sensory-motor coupling and possess a homeodynamic state from which cognitive processes may emerge.