Topic: embodied agent

Cognitive offloading occurs when environmental affordances expand cognitive capacity as well as facilitate spatial and social behaviors. Yet capacity-related constraints are also important, particularly as an embodied agent comes online during development. Vast differences in brain size and offloading capacity exist across the tree of life. Taking a developmental perspective, we utilize several concepts from cybernetics and the evolution of development to understand how we might determine the proportion of internal model (brain) to externalized processing (offloading) in a developing embodied

What role does phenotypic complexity play in the systems-level function of an embodied agent? The organismal phenotype is a topologically complex structure that interacts with a genotype, developmental physics, and an informational environment. Using this observation as inspiration, we utilize a type of embodied agent that exhibits layered representational capacity: meta-brain models. Meta-brains are used to demonstrate how zonally organized phenotypes process information and exhibit self-regulation from development to maturity. We focus on two biological phenomena that explain this capacity: