Slides for seminar 4

Slides on the notions of autonomy seminar

Seminar #4: Autonomy

Wed 29th, 15:00 ARUN 404A
Nathaniel, Tom and Eduardo will lead a discussion on the definitions of autonomy and their relevance for the artificial, situated, embodied and dynamical systems perspective to the study of life and cognition.
Some of the themes to be discussed are: a) weak versus strong definitions of autonomy, b) death, time, self and [...]

Some definitions of autonomy

In preparation for the next Life and Mind seminar on the notion of autonomy, I had a look through some of the papers I have at home to see whether I could find any reference to the concept. Since I had a look through them in no particular order, this is reflected in the structure [...]

Life and Mind associated event for ECAL

I agree with Fernando that having an associated event with the next ECAL which focuses on the philosophy of life and mind is a good idea! I also think that the format/content of that event could just emerge out of the seminar series. So perhaps the goal should be to keep this in mind while [...]

Discussion on autonomy

A few people have agreed that we should hold a seminar on the notion of autonomy, perhaps next week. Since there is going to be no Alergic seminar after this week’s Life and Mind meeting, maybe it would be a good idea for those interested in guiding the presentation to meet up afterwards in order [...]