On Minimal Autonomous Agency: Natural and Artificial
On Minimal Autonomous Agency: Natural and Artificial
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DOI：
10.25088/complexsystems.27.3.289
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发表时间：
2018-01-01
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1.2
通讯作者：
Moreno, Alvaro
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作者：
Moreno, Alvaro
最小能动性（MA）的概念可以被理解为已知现象学领域中最简单的能动性，即我们所知的最简单的能动性，也可以被理解为可能存在的最简单的能动性，无论是合成的还是在假设的生物发生过程中，也就是说，最简单的能动性应该是。第二种观点更为激进，因为它侧重于产生代理能力所需的最简单的组织和物质条件，而不是这些能力实际上如何最低限度地体现出来。它寻找最简单的物质构建块，无论是自然的还是人工的，都可以实现展示代理所需的最简单的组织形式。然而，虽然合成方法似乎是一个更充分的战略，以产生最小形式的代理，我认为，生物领域如何产生代理的研究是最终有必要了解最小代理的矛盾情况下，并向我们展示了他们的人工制造的基本教训。
The idea of minimal agency (MA) may be understood as the simplest agent within the known phenomenological domain, that is, the simplest agent as-we-know-it, and as the simplest agent that could exist, either synthetically or in a hypothetical process of biogenesis, that is, the simplest agent as-it-should-be. The second view is more radical, since it focuses on the simplest organizational and material conditions required for generating agential capacities, not on how they are in fact minimally instantiated. It searches for the simplest material building blocks that, either naturally or artificially, could achieve the simplest form of organization necessary to display agency. Yet, although synthetic methodologies may seem a more adequate strategy to generate minimal forms of agency, I argue that the study of how the biological domain has generated agents is ultimately necessary to understand paradoxical cases of minimal agents and shows us fundamental lessons for their artificial fabrication.