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The Hiatus Between Organism and Machine Evolution: Contrasting Mixed Microbial Communities with Robots
Andrea Roli, Stuart A. Kauffman
Mixed microbial communities, usually composed of various bacterial and fungal species, are fundamental in a plethora of environments, from soil to human gut and skin. Their evoluti…
What Is Consciousness? Artificial Intelligence, Real Intelligence, Quantum Mind, And Qualia
Stuart A. Kauffman, Andrea Roli
We approach the question "What is Consciousness?" in a new way, not as Descartes' "systematic doubt", but as how organisms find their way in their world. Finding one's way involves…
Beyond the Newtonian Paradigm: A Statistical Mechanics of Emergence
Stuart A. Kauffman, Andrea Roli
Since Newton, all classical and quantum physics depends upon the "Newtonian Paradigm". Here the relevant variables of the system are identified. The boundary conditions creating th…
The world is not a theorem
Stuart A. Kauffman, Andrea Roli
The evolution of the biosphere unfolds as a luxuriant generative process of new living forms and functions. Organisms adapt to their environment, exploit novel opportunities that a…
Online adaptation in robots as biological development provides phenotypic plasticity
Michele Braccini, Andrea Roli, Stuart A. Kauffman
The ability of responding to environmental stimuli with appropriate actions is a property shared by all living organisms, and it is also sought in the design of robotic systems. Ph…
Dynamical criticality: overview and open questions
Andrea Roli, Marco Villani, Alessandro Filisetti +1
Systems that exhibit complex behaviours are often found in a particular dynamical condition, poised between order and disorder. This observation is at the core of the so-called cri…