Consequences of the 4 criteria for ER (and AI in general)

• Hierarchical decoupling (domain specificity):

  • Hierarchical decoupling justifies the level of abstraction of ER (the modelling of cognition does not require the modelling of all metabolic and anatomical details)

• Biological embodiment:

  • Past-emphasis: brain-body coevolution, embodied dynamics, control of perception, etc.
  • Special lack of metabolic embodiment in current ER models,
  • Metabolism-->Brain interaction providing functional feed-back (far-from-equilibrium and system accessible fitness functions)
  • Brain-->Metabolism interaction control of functional homeostatis (e.g. control of energy rate into motors)