Eigenbehavior and symbols

Systems Research and Behavioral Science

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 371-384

  Rocha, Luis Mateus ^a  

^a State University of New York at Binghamton   (United States)

Author keywords

Complexity theory; Eigenbehavior; Emergence; Evolutionary systems; Natural selection; Organizational closure; Self organization; Semantic closure

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000353379     PISSN: 00057940     EISSN: 1932300X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1735(199609)13:3<371::aid-sres95>3.0.co;2-u     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. Cariani, P. (1989). On the Design of Devices with Emergent Semantic Functions, Phd dissertation, Systems Science Department, Watson School, SUNY-Binghamton.
2. Dellaert, F., and Beer, R.D. (1994). Toward an evolvable model of development for autonomous agent synthesis. In: Brooks, R., and Maes, P. (eds), Artificial Life IV: Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
3. Forrest, S. (ed.) (1990). Emergent Computation, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
4. Glanville, R. (1988). Objekte, Merve Verlag.
5. Haken, H. (1977). Synergetics, Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
6. Henry, C., and Rocha, L.M. (1996). Language theory: consensual selection of dynamics. In: Trappl, R. (ed.), Cybernetics and Systems '96, World Scientific Press (in press).
7. Kampis, G. (1991). Self-modifying Systems in Biology and Cognitive Science.
8. Kauffman, S. (1993). The Origins of Order: Self-organization and Selection in Evolution, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
9. Kitano, H. (1994). Evolution of metabolism for morphogenesis. In: Brooks, R.A., and Mases, P. (eds), Artificial Life IV. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 49-58.
10. Klir, G.J. (1993). Developments in uncertainty-based information. In: Yovits, M. (ed.), Advances in Computers. (Vol. 36), pp. 255-332.
11. Lakoff, G. (1987). Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things, Chicago University Press, Chicago.
12. Langton, C.G. (1989). Artificial Life. In: Langton, C. G. (ed.), Artificial Life: SFI Studies in the Sciences of Complexity, Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, pp. 221-249.
13. Langton, C.G. (1990). Computation at the edge of chaos: phase transitions and emergent computation. In: Forrest, S. (ed.), Emergent Computation (Special Volume of Physica D, Vol. 42), MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 12-37.
14. Laszlo, E. (1987). Evolution: The Grand Synthesis, New Science Library.
15. Maturana, H., and Varela, F. (1987). The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding, New Science Library.
16. Medina-Martins, P.R., and Rocha, L. (1992). The in and the out: an evolutionary approach. In: Trappl, R. (ed.), Cybernetics and Systems Research '92, World Scientific Press, pp. 681-689.
17. Pask, G. (1992). Different kinds of cybernetics. In: Van de Vijver, G. (ed.), New Perspectives on Cybernetics, Kluwer, Dordrecht, pp. 11-31.
18. Pattee, H.H. (1978). The complementarity principle in biological and social structures. Journal of Social and Biological Structures 1, pp. 191-200.
19. Pattee, H.H. (1982). Cell psychology: an evolutionary approach to the symbol-matter problem. Cognition and Brain Theory 5(4), 325-341.
20. Pattee, H.H. (1986). Universal principles of measurement and language functions in evolving systems. In: Cast, J.L., and Karlqvist, A. (eds), Complexity, Language, and Life: Mathematical Approaches, Springer-Verlag, Berlin. Reprinted in Klir (1991), pp. 579-592.
21. Pattee, H.H. (1995a). Evolving self-seference: matter, symbols, and semantic closure. Communication and Cognition-AI 12(1-2) (Rocha, 1995a), pp. 9-27.
22. Pattee, H.H. (1995b). Artificial life needs a real eoistemology. In: Moran, F. et al. (eds), Advances in Artificial Life, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 23-38.
23. Poundstone, W. (1987). The Recursive Universe, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
24. Rocha, L.M. (1994a). Von Foerster's cognitive tiles: semantically closed building blocks for AI and Alife. In: Trappl, R. (ed.), Cybernetics and Systems '94. (Vol. 1), World Scientific Press, pp. 621-628.
25. Rocha, L.M. (1994b). Cognitive categorization revisited: extending interval valued fuzzy sets as simulation tools for concept combination. In: Proceedings of the 1994 International Conference of NAFIPS/IFIS/NASA. IEEE, pp. 400-404.
26. Rocha, L.M. (ed.) (1995a). Special issue in self-reference in biological and cognitive systems. Communication and Cognition - Al 12(1-2).
27. Rocha, L.M. (1995b). Artificial semantically closed objects. Communication and Cognition - AI 12(1-2) (Rocha, 1995a), 63-90.
28. Rocha, L.M. (1995c). Contextual genetic algorithms: evolving developmental rules. In: Moran, F., Moreno, A., Merelo, J.J., and Chacon, P. (eds), Advances in Artificial Life, Series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 368-382.
29. Rocha, L.M. (1995d). Interval based evidence sets. In: Proceedings of ISUMA-NAFIPS'95, IEEE Press, pp. 624-629.
30. Rocha, L.M. (1996a). Selected self-organization: from eigenbehavior to descriptions. In: Salthe, S., and Van de Vijver, G. (eds), Proceedings of the International Seminar on Evolving Systems, Vienna 1995, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA (in press).
31. Rocha, LM. (1996b). Relative uncertainty and evidence sets: a constructivist framework. International Journal of General Systems (in press).
32. Rocha, L.M., Kreinovich, V., and Kearfott, K.B. (1996). Computing uncertainty in interval based sets. In: Kreinovich, V., and Kearfott, K. B. (eds), Applications of Interval Computations, Kluwer, Dordrecht, pp. 337-380.
33. Rosch, E. (1978). Principles of categorization. In: Rosch, E., and Lloyd, B.B. (eds), Cognition and Categorization, Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ, pp. 27-48.
34. Rosen, R. (1985). Anticipatory Systems, Pergamon Press, Oxford.
35. Rosen, R. (1991). Life Itself. Columbia University Press.
36. Rosen, R. (1995). The mind-brain problem and the physics of reductionism. Communication and Cognition - AI 12(1-2) (Rocha, 1995a), 29-43.
37. Shafer, G. (1976). A Mathematical Theory of Evidence, Princeton University Press, Princeton.
38. Umerez, J. (1995). Semantic closure: a guiding notion to ground artificial life. In: Moran, F., Moreno, A., Merelo, J.J., and Chacon, P. (eds), Advances in Artificial Life, Series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 77-94.
39. van Gelder, T. (1991). What is the 'D' in 'PDP': a survey of the concept of distribution. In: Ramsey, W. et al. (eds), Philosophy and Connectionist Theory, Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ.
40. Varela, F. (1979). Principles of Biological Autonomy, Elsevier North-Holland, Amsterdam.
41. von Foerster, H. (1960). On self-organizing systems and their environments. In: Yorvits, M.C., and Cameron, S. (eds), Self-organizing Systems, Pergamon Press, Oxford, pp. 31-50.
42. von Foerster, H. (1965). Memory without record. In: Kimble, D.P. (ed.), Anatomy of Memory, Science and Behavior Books, pp. 388-433. Reprinted in von Foerster (1981), pp. 91-137.
43. von Foerster, H. (1969). What is memory that it may have hindsight and foresight as well? In: Bogoch, S. (ed.), The Future of the Brain Sciences, Plenum Press, New York, pp. 19-65 and 89-95.
44. von Foerster, H. (1977). Objects: tokens for (eigen-) behaviors. In: Inhelder, B., Gracia, R., and Voneche, J. (eds), Hommage a Jean Piaget: Epistemologie Genetique et Equilibration, Delachaux et Niestel. Reprinted in von Foerster (1981).
45. von Neumann, J. (1966). The Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata, University of Illinois Press, Chicago.