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Evolution in Asynchronous Cellular Automata
No full textBuilding on the work of Von Neumann, Langton, and Sayama among others, we introduce the rst examples of evolution in populations of self-reproducing con gurations in asynchronous cellular automata. Reliance on a global synchronous update signal has been a limitation of all solutions since the problem of achieving self-production in cellular automata was rst attacked by Von Neumann half a century ago. Results of the author obviate the need for this restriction
Self-replication, Evolvability and Asynchronicity in Stochastic Worlds
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Story-Telling and Emotion: Cognitive Technology Considerations in Networking Temporally and Affectively Grounded Minds
No full textAs technological agents that we interact with take an increasing amount of autonomy and responsibility from us, acting on our behalf, there are prospects for social changes in our notions of responsibility for our own actions as well as for the development of ‘cognitive calluses ’ in our interactions with such technologies. Other agents that we interact wit
Sensorimotor experience and its metrics: Informational geometry and the temporal horizon
No full textAbstract- We introduce metrics on sensorimotor expe-rience at various temporal scales based on information-theory. Sensorimotor variables through which the ex-perience of an agent ows are modeled as information sources in the sense of Shannon information theory. In-formation distance between the constellation of an em-bodied agent's sensorimotor variables at different mo-ments in time can be taken variable-by-variable or be-tween entire sets of such variables to yield two classes of metrics on sensorimotor experience: the temporal expe-riential information distance and the Hausdorff metric on experience. Unlike mutual information, these measures each satisfy the metric axioms and thus induce a geom-etry on the space of experiences with the same temporal scope. Continuity of maps between experiential spaces as well as robotic applications and extensions are dis-cussed.
Open Problems in the Emergence and Evolution of Linguistic Communication: A Road-Map for Research
No full textThis paper surveys issues around several grand challenge problems for the understanding of the emergence and evolution linguistic communication, and discusses possible approaches. The identified problems the emergence of (1) advanced use of deixis, gesture, and reference; (2) predication; (3) negation; (4) syntactic categories; and (5) compositionality.
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