作者
Michael J Spivey
发表日期
2023/12/1
来源
Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
卷号
54
页码范围
101325
出版商
Elsevier
简介
Highlights
- Self-sustenance, communication, and replication are observed in nonbiological systems.
- Every system requires a bidirectional exchange of information with the environment.
- Cognitive/informational processes appear to extend beyond the body of an organism.
- If cognition extends beyond the body, then some may persist after death of the body.
Minimally cognitive processes are identified in animals that have no central nervous system, in bacteria and in plants, and even in nonbiological systems that exhibit self-organization, self-sustenance, and group coordination. The common thread among these living and life-like systems is that they all participate in an adaptive dynamic bidirectional exchange of energy and information with their environment. Some of the cognitive processes that these systems exhibit are best detected not inside the system but instead emerging in that bidirectional exchange between …
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