3 papers
cs.AI2026
A Matter of Time: Towards a General Theory of Agency
Amahury J. López-DÃaz, Carlos Gershenson
Agency is widely invoked in biology, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and philosophy, yet its organizational basis, its empirical thresholds, and the operational criteri…
q-bio.PE2026
Characterizing Open-Ended Evolution Through Undecidability Mechanisms in Random Boolean Networks
Amahury J. López-DÃaz, Pedro Juan Rivera Torres, Gerardo L. Febres +1
Discrete dynamical models underpin systems biology, but we still lack substrate-agnostic diagnostics for identifying finite-horizon dynamical signatures that may be relevant to ope…
physics.bio-ph2025
Closing the Loop: How Semantic Closure Enables Open-Ended Evolution?
Amahury J. López-DÃaz, Carlos Gershenson
This manuscript explores the evolutionary emergence of semantic closure -- the self-referential mechanism through which symbols actively construct and interpret their own functiona…