OVERVIEW

• Introduction: the problem, the question

• Life-as-it-could-be: basic autonomy

• From life to cognition: the autonomy of the NS

• Biological Embodiment: more than “just” a physical sensorimotor interface

• Internal Dynamic Organization: Information is dead, long live to in-formation

• Naturalizing cognition: recapitulation

• Postscript: on evolutionary robotics as a theoretical tool (with proposal, ongoing projects and design principles)