Felipe Engelberger

Life as Plasmas: Autonomy and Interactivism in-materio

Nicolás Hinrichs, Mahault Albarracin, Felipe Engelberger, Leonardo Christov-Moore, Daniel Polani

When is a material system a candidate for life at all? We argue that this question is prior to behavior, functional architecture, or computational capacity, and that at root it is one of physical admissibility. We develop a framework in which minimal autonomy, taken in the intera…Read more