Browsing by Author "Biehl, Martin"

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    • Action and perception for spatiotemporal patterns 

      Biehl, Martin; Polani, Daniel (MIT Press, 2017-09)
      This is a contribution to the formalization of the concept of agents in multivariate Markov chains. Agents are commonly defined as entities that act, perceive, and are goal-directed. In a multivariate Markov chain (e.g. a ...

    • Apparent actions and apparent goal-directedness 

      Polani, D.; Biehl, Martin (2015-07)
      In human history countless phenomena have been (wrongly) attributed to agents. For instance, now science believes there are no gods (agents) of lightning, thunder and wind behind the associated phenomena. In physics (assuming ...

    • Causal blankets : Theory and algorithmic framework 

      Rosas, Fernando E.; Mediano, Pedro A.M.; Biehl, Martin; Chandaria, Shamil; Polani, Daniel (Springer Nature, 2020-12-18)
      We introduce a novel framework to identify perception-action loops (PALOs) directly from data based on the principles of computational mechanics. Our approach is based on the notion of causal blanket, which captures sensory ...

    • Expanding the Active Inference Landscape: More Intrinsic Motivations in the Perception-Action Loop 

      Biehl, Martin; Guckelsberger, Christian; Salge, Christoph; Smith, Simon; Polani, Daniel (2018-08-30)
      Active inference is an ambitious theory that treats perception, inference, and action selection of autonomous agents under the heading of a single principle. It suggests biologically plausible explanations for many cognitive ...

    • Some ways to see two in one 

      Biehl, Martin; Polani, Daniel (MIT Press, 2013-09-01)
      We present work towards claryfing whether and how the idea of agents as "subsystems" of an underlying (artificial) universe can be captured formally. For this we propose formal notions of a universe, a decomposition into ...

    • Towards Designing Artificial Universes for Artificial Agents under Interaction Closure 

      Biehl, Martin; Salge, Christoph; Polani, D. (MIT Press, 2014)
      We are interested in designing artificial universes for artificial agents. We view artificial agents as networks of highlevel processes on top of of a low-level detailed-description system. We require that the high-level ...

    • Towards information based space-time patterns as a foundation for agent representation in dynamical systems 

      Polani, Daniel; Biehl, Martin; Ikegami, Takashi (MIT Press, 2016-07-01)
      We present some arguments why existing methods for rep- resenting agents fall short in applications crucial to artificial life. Using a thought experiment involving a fictitious dy- namical systems model of the biosphere ...

    • Towards information based spatiotemporal patterns as a foundation for agent representation in dynamical systems 

      Polani, Daniel; Ikegami, Takashi; Biehl, Martin (MIT Press, 2018-06-29)
      We present some arguments why existing methods for representing agents fall short in applications crucial to artificial life. Using a thought experiment involving a fictitious dynamical systems model of the biosphere we ...