Articolo in rivista, 2005, ENG, 10.1080/01969720490929382

Growing up: emerging complexity in living being

Morgavi Giovanna; Morando Mauro; Biorci Grazia; Caviglia Daniele

Morgavi Giovanna IEIIT CNR Genova Morando Mauro IEIIT CNR Genova Biorci Grazie ISEM CNR Genova Caviglia Daniele DIBE Università di Genova

Biological systems live and grow. Many aspects are inherent to the concept of living, such as the adaptation, the interaction with the environment, and the ability to deal with limited resources. Living systems present multiple levels of organization, with elements at one level interacting and aggregating to create more complex behavior at a higher level. In recent years, many new techniques used to investigate the spatio-temporal activity in living being have demonstrated the presence of features common to the behavior of self organizing dynamical systems. Thus a question arises: Is this chaos useful to model living beings? The answer is very difficult to find. Many experimental data support the dynamic chaotic modelling of living systems. Complex behaviors such as perceiving, intending, acting, learning, and remembering arise as metastable spatio-temporal patterns of brain activity that are themselves produced by the cooperative interactions among neural clusters. In this article we present and discuss that question, and we try to give indication for a possible answer, with the aim of defining the basic features of a behavioral kernel for living artefacts.

Cybernetics and systems 36 (4), pp. 379–395

Keywords

growing up, learning modeling, biological modeling

CNR authors

Caviglia Daniele, Biorci Grazia, Morgavi Giovanna, Morando Mauro

CNR institutes

IEIIT – Istituto di elettronica e di ingegneria dell'informazione e delle telecomunicazioni, ISEM – Istituto di storia dell'Europa mediterranea

ID: 20768

Year: 2005

Type: Articolo in rivista

Creation: 2011-06-01 00:00:00.000

Last update: 2016-04-13 15:55:02.000

External links

OAI-PMH: Dublin Core

OAI-PMH: Mods

OAI-PMH: RDF

DOI: 10.1080/01969720490929382

External IDs

CNR OAI-PMH: oai:it.cnr:prodotti:20768

DOI: 10.1080/01969720490929382

ISI Web of Science (WOS): 000229394600002

Scopus: 2-s2.0-19544385976