ePoster · Artificial Life
Layers, Folds, and Semi-Neuronal Information Processing
Avery Lim · Neuromatch 5
Wed, Sep 28, 2022
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: