Morphological computation: synergy of body and brain
Publikationstyp
Journal Article
Date Issued
2017-08-31
Sprache
English
Journal
Volume
19
Issue
9
Article Number
456
Citation
Entropy 19 (9): 456 (2017-09-01)
Publisher DOI
Scopus ID
Publisher
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
There are numerous examples that show how the exploitation of the body's physicalproperties can lift the burden of the brain. Examples include grasping, swimming, locomotion,and motion detection. The term Morphological Computation was originally coined to describeprocesses in the body that would otherwise have to be conducted by the brain. In this paper, we arguefor a synergistic perspective, and by that we mean that Morphological Computation is a processwhich requires a close interaction of body and brain. Based on a model of the sensorimotor loop,we study a new measure of synergistic information and show that it is more reliable in cases inwhich there is no synergistic information, compared to previous results. Furthermore, we discuss analgorithm that allows the calculation of the measure in non-trivial (non-binary) systems.
Subjects
Complexity
Embodied artificial intelligence
Information integration
Information theory
Morphological computation
Synergistic information
DDC Class
004: Informatik
610: Medizin