Principles of Minimal Cognition: Casting Cognition as Sensorimotor Coordination

Duijn, Michael; Keijzer, Fred; Franken, Daan

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“…Such organisms engage in sophisticated sensorimotor activity and interact with their surroundings to the extent that they can: identify and distinguish between various elements of their environment, make choices, adapt to changes, take part in coordinated group behavior, and make structured changes to their environment [24,31]. They can be said to act purposefully, and there is a good case to be made for them being minimally cognitive [6,33,44,47]. All of this is achieved without a nervous system.…”

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The Evolution of Reaction-Diffusion Controllers for Minimally Cognitive Agents

Dale

Husbands

2010

Artificial Life

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This article describes work carried out to investigate whether a classic reaction-diffusion (RD) system could be used to control a minimally cognitive animat. The RD system chosen was that first described by Gray and Scott, and the minimally cognitive behaviors were those used by Beer et al. involving the fixation and discrimination of diamond and circle shapes by a whiskered animat. A further task was added, which required the RD controllers to maintain and use a chemical memory. The parameters of these controllers were evolved using an evolutionary, or genetic, algorithm.

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The Evolution of Reaction-Diffusion Controllers for Minimally Cognitive Agents

Dale

Husbands

2010

Artificial Life

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“…When so considered, the behavioral complexity of archaea, bacteria and diverse unicellular eukaryotes can be explained [14,18–21,72,73] In like manner, the intelligence of syncytial plasmodia Physarum polycephalum [16,74–76], as well as the intelligence of plants and their robust communicative/cognitive faculties can be sufficiently understood [8,77–82]. Thus, the Senome provides a background through which the basal cognitive capacities of the cell, can be explored along pathways toward the type of consciousness that is typically ascribed to animals, and eventually to ourselves.…”

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Senomic view of the cell: SenomeversusGenome

Baluška

Miller

2018

Communicative & Integrative Biology

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In the legacy of Thomas Henry Huxley, and his ‘epigenetic’ philosophy of biology, cells are proposed to represent a trinity of three memory-storing media: Senome, Epigenome, and Genome that together comprise a cell-wide informational architecture. Our current preferential focus on the Genome needs to be complemented by a similar focus on the Epigenome and a here proposed Senome, representing the sum of all the sensory experiences of the cognitive cell and its sensing apparatus. Only then will biology be in a position to embrace the whole complexity of the eukaryotic cell, understanding its true nature which allows the communicative assembly of cells in the form of sentient multicellular organisms.

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“…Even if sensorimotor coupling does not involve higher-order cognitive abilities, and sometimes not even a nervous system (Van Duijn et al, 2006), one can speak in this case of a basic or minimal cognition. This is a basic embodied cognition, which entails that information from the environment is processed by the sensorimotor structures and transformed into motor impulses that lead to the performance and success of an action.…”

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Self-organization and autonomy: Emergence of degrees of freedom in dynamical systems

Negru

2016

Filosofia Unisinos

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Approached from the point of view of the basic processes that constitute the self-organization of living systems, autonomy means the generation of identity and the minimal unity of a system, as a consequence of the self-production of internal components and processes of an organism, self-regulation of its internal variables, and self-sustaining of its internal resources. However, a living system is also a dynamical system, which means that the emergence of identity and the unity of the system is inseparable from the generation of its degrees of freedom. These degrees of freedom have different levels of complexity, given by the multidimensional patterns instantiating them, offering various alternatives to respond to environmental perturbation. From the point of view of the multidimensionality of degrees of freedom of a living system, which depends on the degree of self-organization and complexity of the organism, one can distinguish three types of autonomy: minimal or basic autonomy, sensorimotor autonomy, and strong autonomy. Put in these terms, autonomy depends on the abilities of the organism to access some degrees of freedom of higher complexity, to enhance its degrees of freedom by its coupling with the environment, as a result of its bodily skills, and to consciously control and monitorize its degrees of freedom, as a result of its higher-order cognitive abilities.

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Principles of Minimal Cognition: Casting Cognition as Sensorimotor Coordination

Cited by 165 publications

References 42 publications

The Evolution of Reaction-Diffusion Controllers for Minimally Cognitive Agents

The Evolution of Reaction-Diffusion Controllers for Minimally Cognitive Agents

Senomic view of the cell: SenomeversusGenome

Self-organization and autonomy: Emergence of degrees of freedom in dynamical systems

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