Keep Your Options Open: An Information-Based Driving Principle for Sensorimotor Systems

Alexander S Klyubin, Daniel Polani and Chrystopher L Nehaniv

PLOS ONE, 2008, vol. 3, issue 12, 1-14

Abstract: The central resource processed by the sensorimotor system of an organism is information. We propose an information-based quantity that allows one to characterize the efficiency of the perception-action loop of an abstract organism model. It measures the potential of the organism to imprint information on the environment via its actuators in a way that can be recaptured by its sensors, essentially quantifying the options available and visible to the organism. Various scenarios suggest that such a quantity could identify the preferred direction of evolution or adaptation of the sensorimotor loop of organisms.

Date: 2008
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