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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Science
  • Neuroscience
  • Artificial Intelligence

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  • Integrated Information Theory (IIT) offers a quantitative framework for consciousness.
  • Embodied agents, controlled by neural networks, interact dynamically with their environment.
  • This interaction involves morphological computation in action and integrated information in the brain.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine information flows within and between an agent's body, brain, and environment.
  • To relate different information flow dynamics.
  • To investigate the interplay between morphological computation and integrated information.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a 'planning as inference' method with an information-geometric EM-algorithm to determine optimal policies for goal-directed behavior.
  • Calculated morphological computation and integrated information based on these optimal policies.
  • Analyzed the dynamics of these measures under varying morphological conditions.

Main Results:

  • Identified an antagonistic relationship between morphological computation and integrated information.
  • Demonstrated that increased morphological computation correlates with decreased information integration in the brain.
  • Highlighted the necessity of measuring information flow to and from the brain to understand its influence on agent behavior.

Conclusions:

  • The study provides a framework for analyzing information flow in embodied agents.
  • Findings suggest a trade-off between externalizing computation (morphological computation) and internal processing (information integration).
  • Future research should focus on bidirectional information flow to fully grasp brain-environment-body interactions.