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ARTIFICIAL LIFE
卷 11, 期 1-2, 页码 161-175出版社
MIT PRESS
DOI: 10.1162/1064546053278919
关键词
agency; autonomy; dynamic decoupling; evolution; motility; robots; sensorimotor activity; size
We analyze the conditions for agency, in natural and artificial m-stems. 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 trans formations as those topical 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 sensoriotor 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. I 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.
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