2025
Untapped Potential in Self-Optimization of Hopfield Networks: The Creativity of Unsupervised Learning.
CoRR, January, 2025
2024
Irruption and Absorption: A 'Black-Box' Framework for How Mind and Matter Make a Difference to Each Other.
Entropy, April, 2024
2023
From autopoiesis to self-optimization: Toward an enactive model of biological regulation.
Biosyst., August, 2023
Irruption Theory: A Novel Conceptualization of the Enactive Account of Motivated Activity.
Entropy, 2023
On the Use of Associative Memory in Hopfield Networks Designed to Solve Propositional Satisfiability Problems.
Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, 2023
Uncovering the Role of Intention in Active and Passive Perception.
Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023
ShadowClones: an Interface to Maintain a Multiple Sense of Body-space Coordination in Multiple Visual Perspectives.
Proceedings of the Augmented Humans International Conference 2023, 2023
2022
Evidence of Critical Dynamics in Movements of Bees inside a Hive.
Entropy, December, 2022
The Problem of Meaning: The Free Energy Principle and Artificial Agency.
Frontiers Neurorobotics, September, 2022
Shadow Clones: an Unattended Visual Interface to Enhance the Task Performance in Multiple Space using Gaze-Switching.
Proceedings of the Symposium on Spatial User Interaction, 2022
Scaling up the self-optimization model by means of on-the-fly computation of weights.
Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, 2022
2021
Shrunken Social Brains? A Minimal Model of the Role of Social Interaction in Neural Complexity.
Frontiers Neurorobotics, 2021
Epilogue to "Questioning Life and Cognition" by John Stewart.
Adapt. Behav., 2021
Combining Self-critical dynamics and Hebbian learning to explain utility of bursty dynamics in neural networks.
Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, 2021
Efficient Spike Timing Dependent Plasticity rule for Complex-Valued Neurons.
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Artificial Life, 2021
An Oscillator Model for Interbrain Synchrony: Slow Interactional Rhythms Entrain Fast Neural Activity.
Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, 2021
Emergent Interaction: Complexity, Dynamics, and Enaction in HCI.
Proceedings of the CHI '21: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2021
2020
Unsupervised Learning Facilitates Neural Coordination Across the Functional Clusters of the C. elegans Connectome.
Frontiers Robotics AI, 2020
Levels of Coupling in Dyadic Interaction: An Analysis of Neural and Behavioral Complexity.
Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, 2020
The distribution of inhibitory neurons in the C. elegans connectome facilitates self-optimization of coordinated neural activity.
Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, 2020
Agents of Habit: Refining the Artificial Life Route to Artificial Intelligence.
Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Artificial Life, 2020
Dynamic Interactive Artificial Intelligence: Sketches for a Future AI Based on Human-Machine Interaction.
Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Artificial Life, 2020
2019
Applying Social Network Analysis to Agent-Based Models: A Case Study of Task Allocation in Swarm Robotics Inspired by Ant Foraging Behavior.
Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Artificial Life, 2019
Self-optimization in a Hopfield neural network based on the <i>C. elegans</i> connectome.
Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Artificial Life, 2019
From embodied interaction to compositional referential communication: A minimal agent-based model without dedicated communication channels.
Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Artificial Life, 2019
2018
Self-Optimization in Continuous-Time Recurrent Neural Networks.
Frontiers Robotics AI, 2018
Modeling collective rule at ancient Teotihuacan as a complex adaptive system: Communal ritual makes social hierarchy more effective.
Cogn. Syst. Res., 2018
ALife and Society: Editorial Introduction to the Artificial Life Conference 2016 Special Issue.
Artif. Life, 2018
Grounding 4E Cognition in Mexico: introduction to special issue on spotlight on 4E Cognition research in Mexico.
Adapt. Behav., 2018
A role for enhanced functions of sleep in psychedelic therapy?
Adapt. Behav., 2018
An iterated learning approach to the origins of the standard genetic code can help to explain its sequence of amino acid assignments.
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Artificial Life, 2018
Mutual synchronization and control between artificial chaotic system and human.
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Artificial Life, 2018
2017
Where There is Life There is Mind: In Support of a Strong Life-Mind Continuity Thesis.
Entropy, 2017
Referential communication as a collective property of a brain-body-environment-body-brain system: A minimal cognitive model.
Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, 2017
Self-modeling in Hopfield Neural Networks with Continuous Activation Function.
Proceedings of the 8th Annual International Conference on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures, 2017
2016
Open-Ended Evolution: Perspectives from the OEE Workshop in York.
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Artif. Life, 2016
Nobility-targeting raids among the Classic Maya: Cooperation in scale-free networks persists under tournament attack when population size fluctuates.
Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, 2016
2015
Neural coordination can be enhanced by occasional interruption of normal firing patterns: A self-optimizing spiking neural network model.
Neural Networks, 2015
Book Review: Contemporary Sensorimotor Theory.
Frontiers Robotics AI, 2015
Toward a behavior-based approach to the origins of life and the genetic system.
Proceedings of the Thirteenth European Conference Artificial Life, 2015
2014
The Past, Present, and Future of Artificial Life.
Frontiers Robotics AI, 2014
Embodied social interaction constitutes social cognition in pairs of humans: A minimalist virtual reality experiment.
CoRR, 2014
Motility at the Origin of Life: Its Characterization and a Model.
Artif. Life, 2014
People in the Paleolithic could access the whole spectrum of consciousness: response to Helvenston.
Adapt. Behav., 2014
Are altered states of consciousness detrimental, neutral or helpful for the origins of symbolic cognition? A response to Hodgson and Lewis-Williams.
Adapt. Behav., 2014
2013
The Dynamically Extended Mind -- A Minimal Modeling Case Study
CoRR, 2013
Turing instabilities in biology, culture, and consciousness? On the enactive origins of symbolic material culture.
Adapt. Behav., 2013
The positive role of parasites in the origins of life.
Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life, 2013
The dynamically extended mind.
Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2013
2012
The Enactive Torch: A New Tool for the Science of Perception.
IEEE Trans. Haptics, 2012
Using Human-Computer Interfaces to Investigate 'Mind-As-It-Could-Be' from the First-Person Perspective.
Cogn. Comput., 2012
Enactive Cognitive Science and Biology of Cognition: A Response to Humberto Maturana.
Cybern. Hum. Knowing, 2012
From adaptive behavior to human cognition: a review of <i>Enaction</i>.
Adapt. Behav., 2012
The Behavior-Based Hypercycle: From Parasitic Reaction to Symbiotic Behavior.
Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, 2012
2011
Life as a process of open-ended becoming: Analysis of a minimal model.
Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life: 20th Anniversary Edition, 2011
2010
Modelling social interaction as perceptual crossing: an investigation into the dynamics of the interaction process.
Connect. Sci., 2010
Life After Ashby: Ultrastability and the Autopoietic Foundations of Biological Autonomy.
Cybern. Hum. Knowing, 2010
What is the relationship between behavioral robustness and distributed mechanisms of cognitive behavior?
Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2010
Accommodating Homeostatically Stable Dynamical Regimes to Cope with Different Environmental Conditions.
Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, 2010
2009
Enactive artificial intelligence: Investigating the systemic organization of life and mind.
Artif. Intell., 2009
On the Role of Social Interaction in Individual Agency.
Adapt. Behav., 2009
The Role of the Spatial Boundary in Autopoiesis.
Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life. Darwin Meets von Neumann, 2009
Toward Minimally Social Behavior: Social Psychology Meets Evolutionary Robotics.
Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life. Darwin Meets von Neumann, 2009
2008
Stability of Coordination Requires Mutuality of Interaction in a Model of Embodied Agents.
Proceedings of the From Animals to Animats 10, 2008
2007
Autonomy: A Review and a Reappraisal.
Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life, 9th European Conference, 2007
2006
Comparison of extrasystolic ECG signal classifiers using discrete wavelet transforms.
Pattern Recognit. Lett., 2006
On the Role of AI in the Ongoing Paradigm Shift within the Cognitive Sciences.
Proceedings of the 50 Years of Artificial Intelligence, 2006