Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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2077116 | Biosystems | 2008 | 15 Pages |
Abstract
Moreover, our analysis reveals some subtle facets of the concept of autonomy, in particular with respect to the seemingly innocent system-environment distinction we took for granted, and raises the issue of the attribution of control, i.e. the responsibility for observed effects. To further explore these issues, we evaluate our autonomy measure for simple automata, an agent moving in space, gliders in the game of life, and the tessellation automaton for autopoiesis of Varela et al. [Varela, F.J., Maturana, H.R., Uribe, R., 1974. Autopoiesis: the organization of living systems, its characterization and a model. BioSystems 5, 187-196].
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Authors
Nils Bertschinger, Eckehard Olbrich, Nihat Ay, Jürgen Jost,