Mind as motion: explorations in the dynamics of cognition
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Layered control architectures in robots and vertebrates
Adaptive Behavior
Cambrian intelligence: the early history of the new AI
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Being There: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again
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Autopoiesis and cognition in the game of life
Artificial Life
Agency in Natural and Artificial Systems
Artificial Life
On What Makes Certain Dynamical Systems Cognitive: A Minimally Cognitive Organization Program
Adaptive Behavior - Animals, Animats, Software Agents, Robots, Adaptive Systems
Synchronization of Internal Neural Rhythms in Multi-Robotic Systems
Adaptive Behavior - Animals, Animats, Software Agents, Robots, Adaptive Systems
Adaptive Behavior - Animals, Animats, Software Agents, Robots, Adaptive Systems
Adaptivity: From Metabolism to Behavior
Adaptive Behavior - Animals, Animats, Software Agents, Robots, Adaptive Systems
An Adaptable Oscillator-Based Controller for Autonomous Robots
Journal of Intelligent and Robotic 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
The emergence of communication by evolving dynamical systems
SAB'06 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on From Animals to Animats: simulation of Adaptive Behavior
What nervous systems do: early evolution, input-output, and the skin brain thesis
Adaptive Behavior - Animals, Animats, Software Agents, Robots, Adaptive Systems
How universal can an intelligence test be?
Adaptive Behavior - Animals, Animats, Software Agents, Robots, Adaptive Systems
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Within the cognitive sciences, cognition tends to be interpreted from an anthropocentric perspective, involving a stringent set of human capabilities. Instead, we suggest that cognition is better explicated as a much more general biological phenomenon, allowing the lower bound of cognition to extend much further down the phylogenetic scale. We argue that elementary forms of cognition can already be witnessed in prokaryotes possessing a functional sensorimotor analogue of the nervous system. Building on a case-study of the Escherichia coli bacterium and its sensorimotor system, the TCST-system, we home in on the characteristics of minimal cognition, and distinguish it from more basic forms of ontogenetic adaptation. In our view, minimal cognition requires an embodiment consisting of a sensorimotor coupling mechanism that subsumes an autopoietic organization; this forms the basis of the growing consensus that the core of cognition revolves around sensorimotor coupling. We discuss the relevance of our interpretation of minimal cognition for the study of cognition in general