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Biological agents

Natural living systems that have been shown to increase causal emergence after learning, motivating the cross-domain comparison.

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  • Artificial agents
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    Synthetic agents (here RL-trained neural networks) whose causal emergence was previously largely unknown; the paper addresses this gap.

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  • Agentconcept0.827
    Any autonomous system including living and non-living forms that embodies a perception-action cycle and tries to navigate and persist in an environment
  • The paper's characterization of living organisms' causal patterns as software — evolving, self-organizing, self-perpetuating, agentic — distinct from engineered code
  • Biobotsconcept0.767
    Synthetic living machines with predictable behavior.
  • Agents that exhibit cognition-like behavior without neurons, meeting sentience criteria via electrically active cells.
  • The artificial agents trained with RL in this study, whose latent dynamics are analyzed for causal emergence.
  • Cyborg Agentsconcept0.759
  • Emergent Agentsconcept0.754
    Higher-level individuals (e.g., embryo, swarm) that arise from cooperative subunits, possessing goals not assignable to any one component.
  • Central concept challenged in paper; traditionally defined by genetic identity or evolutionary units but shown to be more about cognitive organization and information integration.