Daniel Polani: "Organisation of the Information Flow in the Perception-Action Loop"

Описание: Topos Institute Colloquium, 29th of May 2025.
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Agents interact with their environment primarily through their perception-action loop. One way to look at this interaction is to consider it as the exchange of information, specifically, Shannon information. In my talk, I will discuss how that is done, how this relates to the structure of how the agent interacts with their environment (a high-level view of so-called "embodiment") and a number of phenomena that can be understood through this perspective. It turns out that the embodiment or agent/environment interaction imposes substantial structure onto the information flow, in addition to the fundamental structural constraints that determine the relation between the agent and its environment.