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Chair: Thomas Sokolowski
The way organismic agents come to know the world, and the way algorithms solve problems, are fundamentally different. The most sensible course of action for an organism does not simply follow from logical rules of inference. Before it can even use such rules, the organism must tackle the problem of relevance. It must turn ill-defined problems into well-defined ones, turn semantics into syntax....
Molecular components of cells must communicate with each other through physical mechanisms that necessarily consume energy [1]; for example, ion channels communicate electrically, by modulating ionic currents which are sensed as resulting charge accumulation at the membrane by distant voltage gated channels. I will first argue in general that powering such communication must incur large costs...
