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most citedHybrid Life: Integrating Biological, Artificial, and Cognitive Systems

11 citations

5 papers

astro-ph.EP2023★ 2 cited

Rebuilding the Habitable Zone from the Bottom Up with Computational Zones

Caleb Scharf, Olaf Witkowski

Computation, if treated as a set of physical processes that act on information represented by states of matter, encompasses biological systems, digital systems, and other construct…

cs.AI2022★ 11 cited

Hybrid Life: Integrating Biological, Artificial, and Cognitive Systems

Manuel Baltieri, Hiroyuki Iizuka, Olaf Witkowski +2

Artificial life is a research field studying what processes and properties define life, based on a multidisciplinary approach spanning the physical, natural and computational scien…

cs.NE2022★ 9 cited

Preference-Learning Emitters for Mixed-Initiative Quality-Diversity Algorithms

Roberto Gallotta, Kai Arulkumaran, L. B. Soros

In mixed-initiative co-creation tasks, wherein a human and a machine jointly create items, it is important to provide multiple relevant suggestions to the designer. Quality-diversi…

cs.AI2022★ 7 cited

Interpreting systems as solving POMDPs: a step towards a formal understanding of agency

Martin Biehl, Nathaniel Virgo

Under what circumstances can a system be said to have beliefs and goals, and how do such agency-related features relate to its physical state? Recent work has proposed a notion of…

cs.NE2021★ 7 cited

Regenerating Soft Robots through Neural Cellular Automata

Kazuya Horibe, Kathryn Walker, Sebastian Risi

Morphological regeneration is an important feature that highlights the environmental adaptive capacity of biological systems. Lack of this regenerative capacity significantly limit…