Abstract
In the field of artificial life there is no agreement on what defines 'autonomy'. This makes it difficult to measure progress made towards understanding as well as engineering autonomous systems. Here, we review the diversity of approaches and categorize them by introducing a conceptual distinction between behavioral and constitutive autonomy. Differences in the autonomy of artificial and biological agents tend to be marginalized for the former and treated as absolute for the latter. We argue that with this distinction the apparent opposition can be resolved. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.
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Froese, T., Virgo, N., & Izquierdo, E. (2007). Autonomy: A review and a reappraisal. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 4648 LNAI, pp. 455–464). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74913-4_46
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