Constitutive autonomy is the capacity of an entity to perpetually develop its individual
constitution and coupling with its environment. We argue that computational entities (ie,
entities that can perform computation) can gain constitutive autonomy through motorsensory
self-programming–a mechanism by which the entity acquires new computational processes
as a series of patterns of interaction that the entity can learn through experience, simulate
internally, and enact in the environment. Motorsensory self-programming allows the …