Autonomy: An information theoretic perspective

We present a tentative proposal for a quantitative measure of autonomy. This is something that, surprisingly, seems to be missing from the literature, even though autonomy is considered to be a basic concept in many disciplines, including artificial life. We work in an information

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: BIOSYSTEMS
• Authors: Nils Bertschinger, Eckehard Olbrich, Nihat Ay, Jürgen Jost
• Keywords: BIOSYSTEMS 2008, Conditional Mutual Information, Mutual Information, Quantitative Measure