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Causal Organization Prior to and Promoting Self-Replication in a Catalytic Model of the Origin of Life
Federico Pigozzi, Michael Levin
Agents that exert causal power in the world are thought to be the product of selection among diverse replicators. Whether organized causal structure can arise before replication an…
The Causally Emergent Alignment Hypothesis: Causal Emergence Aligns with and Predicts Final Reward in Reinforcement Learning Agents
Federico Pigozzi, Michael Levin
A hallmark of life on Earth is the ability of agents to exert causal power and be drivers of subsequent events. This is key to cognition at all scales. Causal emergence, measuring…
Shape Change and Control of Pressure-based Soft Agents
Federico Pigozzi
Biological agents possess bodies that are mostly of soft tissues. Researchers have resorted to soft bodies to investigate Artificial Life (ALife)-related questions; similarly, a ne…
Robots: the Century Past and the Century Ahead
Federico Pigozzi
Let us reflect on the state of robotics. This year marks the -st anniversary of R.U.R., a play by the writer Karel Čapek, often credited with introducing the word "robot". The…
Evolving Modular Soft Robots without Explicit Inter-Module Communication using Local Self-Attention
Federico Pigozzi, Yujin Tang, Eric Medvet +1
Modularity in robotics holds great potential. In principle, modular robots can be disassembled and reassembled in different robots, and possibly perform new tasks. Nevertheless, ac…