The Least Action and the Metric of an Organized System
Open Systems & Information Dynamics
Basic autonomy as a fundamental step in the synthesis of life
Artificial Life
Interactivist-constructivist foundations for embodying attention
Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence
Natural selection in relation to complexity
Artificial Life
The cognitive agent: Overcoming informational limits
Adaptive Behavior - Animals, Animats, Software Agents, Robots, Adaptive Systems
Teleonomic functions and intrinsic intentionality: Dretske's theory as a test case
Cognitive Systems Research
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Both natural and engineered systems are fundamentally dynamical in nature: their defining properties are causal, and their organisational and functional capacities are causally grounded. Among dynamical systems, an interesting and important sub-class are those that are autonomous, anticipative and adaptive (AAA). Living systems, intelligent systems, sophisticated robots and social systems belong to this class, and the use of these terms has recently spread rapidly through the scientific literature. Central to understanding these dynamical systems is their complicated organisation and their consequent capacities for re- and self-organisation. But there is at present no general analysis of these capacities or of the requisite organisation involved. We define what distinguishes AAA systems from other kinds of systems by characterising their central properties in a dynamically interpreted information theory.