Molecular autonomous agents |
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Authors: | Kauffman Stuart |
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Affiliation: | The Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA. |
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Abstract: | I consider an autonomous agent to be a physical system able to act on its own behalf, such as a bacterium swimming up a glucose gradient. I tentatively define an autonomous agent to be a system capable of self-reproduction and at least capable of performing one thermodynamic work cycle. I give a hypothetical chemical example. I then explore the increasingly odd implications of this definition. |
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