000047407 001__ 47407 000047407 005__ 20190219123634.0 000047407 037__ $$aTESIS-2016-015 000047407 041__ $$aeng 000047407 080__ $$a007 000047407 1001_ $$aAguilera Lizarraga, Miguel 000047407 24500 $$aInteraction dynamics and autonomy in cognitive systems 000047407 260__ $$aZaragoza$$bUniversidad de Zaragoza, Prensas de la Universidad$$c2015 000047407 300__ $$a298 000047407 4900_ $$aTesis de la Universidad de Zaragoza$$v2016-15$$x2254-7606 000047407 500__ $$aPresentado: 23 11 2015 000047407 502__ $$aTesis-Univ. Zaragoza, Informática e Ingeniería de Sistemas, 2015$$bZaragoza, Universidad de Zaragoza$$c2015 000047407 506__ $$aby-nc-nd$$bCreative Commons$$c3.0$$uhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ 000047407 520__ $$aThe concept of autonomy is of crucial importance for understanding life and cognition. Whereas cellular and organismic autonomy is based in the self-production of the material infrastructure sustaining the existence of living beings as such, we are interested in how biological autonomy can be expanded into forms of autonomous agency, where autonomy as a form of organization is extended into the behaviour of an agent in interaction with its environment (and not its material self-production). In this thesis, we focus on the development of operational models of sensorimotor agency, exploring the construction of a domain of interactions creating a dynamical interface between agent and environment. We present two main contributions to the study of autonomous agency: First, we contribute to the development of a modelling route for testing, comparing and validating hypotheses about neurocognitive autonomy. Through the design and analysis of specific neurodynamical models embedded in robotic agents, we explore how an agent is constituted in a sensorimotor space as an autonomous entity able to adaptively sustain its own organization. Using two simulation models and different dynamical analysis and measurement of complex patterns in their behaviour, we are able to tackle some theoretical obstacles preventing the understanding of sensorimotor autonomy, and to generate new predictions about the nature of autonomous agency in the neurocognitive domain. Second, we explore the extension of sensorimotor forms of autonomy into the social realm. We analyse two cases from an experimental perspective: the constitution of a collective subject in a sensorimotor social interactive task, and the emergence of an autonomous social identity in a large-scale technologically-mediated social system. Through the analysis of coordination mechanisms and emergent complex patterns, we are able to gather experimental evidence indicating that in some cases social autonomy might emerge based on mechanisms of coordinated sensorimotor activity and interaction, constituting forms of collective autonomous agency. 000047407 6531_ $$ateoría de sistemas 000047407 6531_ $$aneurociencias 000047407 6531_ $$acibernética 000047407 6531_ $$acomportamiento colectivo 000047407 700__ $$aGonzález Bedia, Manuel$$edir. 000047407 700__ $$aSerón Arbeloa, Francisco José$$edir. 000047407 700__ $$aBarandiarán Fernández, Xabier Eugenio$$edir. 000047407 7102_ $$aUniversidad de Zaragoza$$bInformática e Ingeniería de Sistemas 000047407 8560_ $$fchperez@unizar.es 000047407 8564_ $$s8445887$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/47407/files/TESIS-2016-015.pdf$$zTexto completo (eng) 000047407 909CO $$ooai:zaguan.unizar.es:47407$$pdriver 000047407 909co $$ptesis 000047407 9102_ $$aIngeniería de sistemas y automática$$bInformática e Ingeniería de Sistemas 000047407 980__ $$aTESIS