title: Autonomy: a review and a reappraisal
creator: Froese, Mr Tom
creator: Virgo, Mr Nathaniel
creator: Izquierdo, Mr Eduardo
subject: Philosophy of Mind
subject: Dynamical Systems
subject: Theoretical Biology
subject: Artificial Intelligence
description: In the field of artificial life there is no agreement on what defines ‘autonomy’. This makes it difficult to measure progress made towards understanding as well as engineering autonomous systems. Here, we review the diversity of approaches and categorize them by introducing a conceptual distinction between behavioral and constitutive autonomy. Differences in the autonomy of artificial and biological agents tend to be marginalized for the former and treated as absolute for the latter. We argue that with this distinction the apparent opposition can be resolved.
publisher: Springer-Verlag
contributor: Almeida e Costa, Mr Fernando
date: 2007
type: Conference Paper
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: http://cogprints.org/5779/1/Froese%2C_Virgo%2C_Izquierdo_07_-_Autonomy_-_a_review_and_a_reappraisal.pdf
identifier:   Froese, Mr Tom and Virgo, Mr Nathaniel and Izquierdo, Mr Eduardo  (2007) Autonomy: a review and a reappraisal.  [Conference Paper]     
relation: http://cogprints.org/5779/