creators_name: Froese, Tom
creators_name: Virgo, Nathaniel
creators_name: Izquierdo, Eduardo
creators_id: t.froese@gmail.com
creators_id: n.d.virgo@sussex.ac.uk
creators_id: e.j.izquierdo@sussex.ac.uk
editors_name: Almeida e Costa, Fernando
type: confpaper
datestamp: 2007-10-22 10:40:41
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:56:59
metadata_visibility: show
title: Autonomy: a review and a reappraisal
ispublished: pub
subjects: phil-mind
subjects: comp-sci-mach-dynam-sys
subjects: bio-theory
subjects: comp-sci-art-intel
full_text_status: public
keywords: autonomy, artificial life, life, autopoiesis
abstract: 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.
date: 2007
date_type: published
publisher: Springer-Verlag
refereed: TRUE
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citation:   Froese, Mr Tom and Virgo, Mr Nathaniel and Izquierdo, Mr Eduardo  (2007) Autonomy: a review and a reappraisal.  [Conference Paper]     
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