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- research-articleFebruary 2024
A novel framework to classify opinion dynamics of mobile agents under the bounded confidence model
Adaptive Behavior - Animals, Animats, Software Agents, Robots, Adaptive Systems (SAGE-ADAP), Volume 32, Issue 2Apr 2024, Pages 167–187https://doi.org/10.1177/10597123231195423The formation and evolution of public opinion have been widely studied to understand how consensus forms due to atomic interactions between individuals. While many studies have paid attention to modelling influence and interaction, most of the literature ...
- research-articleFebruary 2024
Sense-Making in the Wild: The Historical and Ecological Depth of Enactive Processes of Life and Cognition
Adaptive Behavior - Animals, Animats, Software Agents, Robots, Adaptive Systems (SAGE-ADAP), Volume 32, Issue 2Apr 2024, Pages 117–136https://doi.org/10.1177/10597123231190153The enactive approach characterizes life and cognition as sense-making. The standard description of sense-making entails the co-emergence of an agent’s self and a meaningful world, as well as the emergence of a normativity that guides the behaviour of ...
- editorialFebruary 2024
Cultural Evolution, Disinformation, and Social Division
- R Alexander Bentley,
- Benjamin Horne,
- Joshua Borycz,
- Simon Carrignon,
- Garriy Shteynberg,
- Blai Vidiella,
- Sergi Valverde,
- Michael J O’Brien
Adaptive Behavior - Animals, Animats, Software Agents, Robots, Adaptive Systems (SAGE-ADAP), Volume 32, Issue 2Apr 2024, Pages 189–203https://doi.org/10.1177/10597123231186432Diversity of expertise is inherent to cultural evolution. When it is transparent, diversity of human knowledge is useful; when social conformity overcomes that transparency, “expertise” can lead to divisiveness. This is especially true today, where ...
- research-articleFebruary 2024
Emergence of altruistic behavior in heterogeneous populations of artificial agents by evolution of kin discrimination mechanism
Adaptive Behavior - Animals, Animats, Software Agents, Robots, Adaptive Systems (SAGE-ADAP), Volume 32, Issue 1Feb 2024, Pages 47–61https://doi.org/10.1177/10597123231184652The emergence of altruistic behaviors in heterogeneous populations of autonomous robots, especially in signaling tasks, has proven to be a difficult problem to solve. However signaling and altruistic behaviors are present throughout the tree of life. ...
- research-articleFebruary 2024
On motivating irruptions: the need for a multilevel approach at the interface between life and mind
Adaptive Behavior - Animals, Animats, Software Agents, Robots, Adaptive Systems (SAGE-ADAP), Volume 32, Issue 1Feb 2024, Pages 95–99https://doi.org/10.1177/10597123231184651In a recent remarkable article, Froese (2023) presents his Irruption Theory to explain how motivations can make a behavioral difference in motivated activity. In this opinion article, we review the main tenets of Froese’s theory, and highlight its ...
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- research-articleFebruary 2024
Toluene-Induced Behavioral Sensitization is Attenuated by Voluntary Physical Exercise and Social Interaction
Adaptive Behavior - Animals, Animats, Software Agents, Robots, Adaptive Systems (SAGE-ADAP), Volume 32, Issue 1Feb 2024, Pages 63–70https://doi.org/10.1177/10597123231178941Toluene-based inhalants found in some common products, such as paint thinner or glues, may be used to induce intoxication. Though addiction may be one of its most detrimental consequences, treatment options are insufficient or limited. Environmental ...
- research-articleFebruary 2024
The temporal and affective structure of living systems: A thermodynamic perspective
Adaptive Behavior - Animals, Animats, Software Agents, Robots, Adaptive Systems (SAGE-ADAP), Volume 32, Issue 1Feb 2024, Pages 17–31https://doi.org/10.1177/10597123231176346Enactive approaches to cognitive science as well as contemporary accounts from neuroscience have argued that we need to reconceptualize the role of temporality and affectivity in minds. Far from being limited to special faculties, such as emotional ...
- research-articleFebruary 2024
An enactivist account of the dynamics of lying
Adaptive Behavior - Animals, Animats, Software Agents, Robots, Adaptive Systems (SAGE-ADAP), Volume 32, Issue 1Feb 2024, Pages 3–16https://doi.org/10.1177/10597123231166421Enactivist accounts of communication have focused almost exclusively on honest, cooperative communication. However, much of human life involves deception and lies. Using the generally agreed upon definition of lying, we here develop an enactive account ...
- research-articleFebruary 2023
Animals in Sociomaterial Processes: An Alternative to Inferential Processes in Animals’ Heads
Adaptive Behavior - Animals, Animats, Software Agents, Robots, Adaptive Systems (SAGE-ADAP), Volume 31, Issue 1Feb 2023, Pages 51–63https://doi.org/10.1177/10597123221102209Mindreading and behaviour-reading depict social cognition as an inferential process, taking place inside the individual. This process consists either of mental state ascription (mindreading) or application of general rules (behaviour-reading). In this ...
- research-articleFebruary 2023
Adaptive functions in an agent-based model of an economic system
Adaptive Behavior - Animals, Animats, Software Agents, Robots, Adaptive Systems (SAGE-ADAP), Volume 31, Issue 1Feb 2023, Pages 21–34https://doi.org/10.1177/10597123221095644Agent-based models, with a history reaching back to the 1940s, have been cited as a useful technique for planning economic development and simulating the effect of economic crashes. These models offer an insightful alternative to the traditional ...
- research-articleDecember 2022
Engaging with art skillfully. First steps towards an ecological-enactive account of the experience of art
Adaptive Behavior - Animals, Animats, Software Agents, Robots, Adaptive Systems (SAGE-ADAP), Volume 30, Issue 6Dec 2022, Pages 603–611https://doi.org/10.1177/10597123221133910Ecological-enactive cognitive science is an increasingly influential paradigm that has proved its heuristic value in various fields of the human sciences. This text, in the form of a conversation, explores possibilities for an ecological-enactive account ...
- research-articleDecember 2022
Change-Ability for a World in Flux
Adaptive Behavior - Animals, Animats, Software Agents, Robots, Adaptive Systems (SAGE-ADAP), Volume 30, Issue 6Dec 2022, Pages 613–623https://doi.org/10.1177/10597123221133869This article aims to sketch a new integrative perspective on what I call change-ability. I define change-ability as skilled ways of coordinating with a rapidly changing world. Many urgent societal challenges – from climate change to obesity, from the ...
- research-articleAugust 2022
Smooth coping: an embodied, Heideggerian approach to dual-process theory
Adaptive Behavior - Animals, Animats, Software Agents, Robots, Adaptive Systems (SAGE-ADAP), Volume 30, Issue 4Aug 2022, Pages 329–344https://doi.org/10.1177/10597123211017337Dual-process theories divide cognition into two kinds of processes: Type 1 processes that are autonomous and do not use working memory, and Type 2 processes that are decoupled from the immediate situation and use working memory. Often, Type 1 processes ...
- research-articleJune 2022
Experience shapes future foraging decisions in a brainless organism
Adaptive Behavior - Animals, Animats, Software Agents, Robots, Adaptive Systems (SAGE-ADAP), Volume 30, Issue 3Jun 2022, Pages 211–221https://doi.org/10.1177/1059712321994684The ability to change one’s behaviour based on past experience has obvious fitness benefits. Drawing from past experience requires some kind of information storage and retrieval. The acellular slime mould Physarum polycephalum has previously been shown ...
- research-articleJune 2022
Evolution of coordination in pairwise and multi-player interactions via prior commitments
Adaptive Behavior - Animals, Animats, Software Agents, Robots, Adaptive Systems (SAGE-ADAP), Volume 30, Issue 3Jun 2022, Pages 257–277https://doi.org/10.1177/1059712321993166Upon starting a collective endeavour, it is important to understand your partners’ preferences and how strongly they commit to a common goal. Establishing a prior commitment or agreement in terms of posterior benefits and consequences from those engaging ...
- book-reviewApril 2022
A world-involving theory of agency: review of Sensorimotor Life: An Enactive Proposal by Ezequiel Di Paolo, Thomas Buhrmann, and Xabier Barandiaran. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2017
Adaptive Behavior - Animals, Animats, Software Agents, Robots, Adaptive Systems (SAGE-ADAP), Volume 30, Issue 2Apr 2022, Pages 205–208https://doi.org/10.1177/1059712320976676Sensorimotor theory of perception has been criticized for its ambiguity about the need for internal representations and the lack of a proper account of agency and subjective experience. The book under review offers a compelling non-representational, ...
- research-articleApril 2022
Moral emotions when reading quotidian circumstances in contexts of violence: an fMRI study
Adaptive Behavior - Animals, Animats, Software Agents, Robots, Adaptive Systems (SAGE-ADAP), Volume 30, Issue 2Apr 2022, Pages 119–145https://doi.org/10.1177/1059712320939346The increase of violence in Mexico and consequent suffering during the last decades is evident, but its effects over feelings and moral judgments remain uncertain. We used journalistic news showing real-life situations to investigate the effects of ...
- research-articleDecember 2021
Structural coupling and the puzzle of surfaces: ontology of boundaries from the minimally cognitive perspective
Adaptive Behavior - Animals, Animats, Software Agents, Robots, Adaptive Systems (SAGE-ADAP), Volume 29, Issue 6Dec 2021, Pages 601–615https://doi.org/10.1177/1059712320937475Boundaries are prominent ingredients of reality, including—most importantly—the boundaries of organisms and the perceived boundaries of things (their surfaces). It is also customary to think of minds as kinds of bounded loci for thoughts, representations,...
- research-articleOctober 2021
Living creatures, humankind, and the history of who we are
Adaptive Behavior - Animals, Animats, Software Agents, Robots, Adaptive Systems (SAGE-ADAP), Volume 29, Issue 5Oct 2021, Pages 505–509https://doi.org/10.1177/10597123211031702Breathing Life into Biology is a brave attempt to do science while wearing its values on its sleeves. It is written under the commitment that life is intrinsically valuable, and its value has to be taken seriously in doing biology. Stewart defends a ...
- research-articleOctober 2021
Autopoiesis and evolution: the role of organisms in natural drift
Adaptive Behavior - Animals, Animats, Software Agents, Robots, Adaptive Systems (SAGE-ADAP), Volume 29, Issue 5Oct 2021, Pages 511–522https://doi.org/10.1177/10597123211030694Genetic reductionism is increasingly seen as a severely limited approach to understanding living systems. The Neo-Darwinian explanatory framework tends to overlook the role of the organism for an understanding of development and evolution. In the current ...