”Membranes are one way that embedded agents can try to de-embed themselves from their environment.”
I would like to hear more elaboration on “de-embedding”. For agents who which are embedded in and interact directly with the physical world, I’m not sure that a process of de-embedding is well defined.
There are fundamental thermodynamic properties of agents that are relevant here. Discussion of agent membranes could also include an analysis of how the environment and agent do work on each other via the mebrane, and how the agent dissipates waste heat and excess entropy to the environment.
De-embedding, as in, making your membrane as strong as possible. More technically: minimizing infiltration as much as possible in response to potential threats across your Markov blanket
Nice post.
”Membranes are one way that embedded agents can try to de-embed themselves from their environment.”
I would like to hear more elaboration on “de-embedding”. For agents who which are embedded in and interact directly with the physical world, I’m not sure that a process of de-embedding is well defined.
There are fundamental thermodynamic properties of agents that are relevant here. Discussion of agent membranes could also include an analysis of how the environment and agent do work on each other via the mebrane, and how the agent dissipates waste heat and excess entropy to the environment.
De-embedding, as in, making your membrane as strong as possible. More technically: minimizing infiltration as much as possible in response to potential threats across your Markov blanket