--- 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.' altloc: [] chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: 9th European Conference on Artificial Life confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: - t.froese@gmail.com - n.d.virgo@sussex.ac.uk - e.j.izquierdo@sussex.ac.uk creators_name: - family: Froese given: Tom honourific: Mr lineage: '' - family: Virgo given: Nathaniel honourific: Mr lineage: '' - family: Izquierdo given: Eduardo honourific: Mr lineage: '' date: 2007 date_type: published datestamp: 2007-10-22 10:40:41 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/57/79 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: - family: Almeida e Costa given: Fernando honourific: Mr lineage: '' eprint_status: archive eprintid: 5779 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png;/5779/1/Froese%2C_Virgo%2C_Izquierdo_07_%2D_Autonomy_%2D_a_review_and_a_reappraisal.pdf full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: pub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: 'autonomy, artificial life, life, autopoiesis' lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:56:59 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: ~ pagerange: ~ pubdom: TRUE publication: ~ publisher: Springer-Verlag refereed: TRUE referencetext: "Barandiaran, X. & Moreno, A. 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