Insect vision and olfaction: different neural architectures for different kinds of sensory signal?
SAB94 Proceedings of the third international conference on Simulation of adaptive behavior : from animals to animats 3: from animals to animats 3
Being There: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again
Being There: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again
Ultimate Computing: Biomolecular Consciouness and Nano Technology
Ultimate Computing: Biomolecular Consciouness and Nano Technology
Evolving control metabolism for a robot
Artificial Life
Modeling adaptive autonomous agents
Artificial Life
Principles of Minimal Cognition: Casting Cognition as Sensorimotor Coordination
Adaptive Behavior - Animals, Animats, Software Agents, Robots, Adaptive Systems
Adaptivity: From Metabolism to Behavior
Adaptive Behavior - Animals, Animats, Software Agents, Robots, Adaptive Systems
Enactive artificial intelligence: Investigating the systemic organization of life and mind
Artificial Intelligence
Environments for Sonic Ecologies
Proceedings of the 2007 EvoWorkshops 2007 on EvoCoMnet, EvoFIN, EvoIASP,EvoINTERACTION, EvoMUSART, EvoSTOC and EvoTransLog: Applications of Evolutionary Computing
Integrating Autopoiesis and Behavior: An Exploration in Computational Chemo-ethology
Adaptive Behavior - Animals, Animats, Software Agents, Robots, Adaptive Systems
Defining Agency: Individuality, Normativity, Asymmetry, and Spatio-temporality in Action
Adaptive Behavior - Animals, Animats, Software Agents, Robots, Adaptive Systems
Plants: Adaptive behavior, root-brains, and minimal cognition
Adaptive Behavior - Animals, Animats, Software Agents, Robots, Adaptive Systems
Motility at the origin of life: Its characterization and a model
Artificial Life
| Hi-index | 0.00 |
We analyze the conditions for agency in natural and artificial systems. In the case of basic (natural) autonomous systems, self-construction and activity in the environment are two aspects of the same organization, the distinction between which is entirely conceptual: their sensorimotor activities are metabolic, realized according to the same principles and through the same material transformations as those typical of internal processes (such as energy transduction). The two aspects begin to be distinguishable in a particular evolutionary trend, related to the size increase of some groups of organisms whose adaptive abilities depend on motility. Here a specialized system develops, which, in the sensorimotor aspect, is decoupled from the metabolic basis, although it remains dependent on it in the self-constructive aspect. This decoupling reveals a complexification of the organization. In the last section of the article this approach to natural agency is used to analyze artificial systems by posing two problems: whether it is possible to artificially build an organization similar to the natural, and whether this notion of agency can be grounded on different organizing principles.