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

• Autonomy (integrity and differentiation):

  • Synthetically:
    • autonomy is achieved through CTRNNs (recurrency, functional integration, etc.)
    • high environmental variability will force behavioural decoupling from particular agent-environment relationships increasing autonomy
  • Analytically: we could start quantitatively analyzing autonomy with complexity measures
    • recent work by Seth & Edelman (2004) provide interesting analytical tools.