Grounding cognition: heterarchical control mechanisms in biology
dc.contributor.author | Bechtel, William | |
dc.contributor.author | Bich, Leonardo | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-03-22T13:32:17Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-03-22T13:32:17Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-03-15 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 376(1820) : (2021) // Article ID 20190751 | es_ES |
dc.identifier.issn | 0962-8436 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1471-2970 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10810/50711 | |
dc.description.abstract | We advance an account that grounds cognition, specifically decision-making, in an activity all organisms as autonomous systems must perform to keep themselves viable-controlling their production mechanisms. Production mechanisms, as we characterize them, perform activities such as procuring resources from their environment, putting these resources to use to construct and repair the organism's body and moving through the environment. Given the variable nature of the environment and the continual degradation of the organism, these production mechanisms must be regulated by control mechanisms that select when a production is required and how it should be carried out. To operate on production mechanisms, control mechanisms need to procure information through measurement processes and evaluate possible actions. They are making decisions. In all organisms, these decisions are made by multiple different control mechanisms that are organized not hierarchically but heterarchically. In many cases, they employ internal models of features of the environment with which the organism must deal. Cognition, in the form of decision-making, is thus fundamental to living systems which must control their production mechanisms. This article is part of the theme issue 'Basal cognition: conceptual tools and the view from the single cell'. | es_ES |
dc.description.sponsorship | L.B. received support from the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovacion y Universidades, Spain (Project: PID2019-104576GB-I00 and `Ramon y Cajal' Fellowship RYC-2016-19798) and from the Basque Government (Project IT1228-19). | es_ES |
dc.language.iso | eng | es_ES |
dc.publisher | Royal Society B-Biological Sciences | es_ES |
dc.relation | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MCIU/PID2019-104576GB-I00 | es_ES |
dc.relation | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MINECO/RYC-2016-19798 | es_ES |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | es_ES |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ | * |
dc.subject | decision-making | es_ES |
dc.subject | production mechanisms | es_ES |
dc.subject | control mechanisms | es_ES |
dc.subject | chemotaxis | es_ES |
dc.subject | circadian rhythms | es_ES |
dc.subject | motor control | es_ES |
dc.subject | evolution | es_ES |
dc.subject | systems | es_ES |
dc.subject | life | es_ES |
dc.subject | organization | es_ES |
dc.subject | oscillation | es_ES |
dc.subject | autopoiesis | es_ES |
dc.subject | metabolism | es_ES |
dc.subject | expression | es_ES |
dc.title | Grounding cognition: heterarchical control mechanisms in biology | es_ES |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | es_ES |
dc.rights.holder | 2021 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited. | es_ES |
dc.rights.holder | Atribución 3.0 España | * |
dc.relation.publisherversion | https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2019.0751?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%3dpubmed | es_ES |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1098/rstb.2019.0751 | |
dc.departamentoes | Filosofía | es_ES |
dc.departamentoeu | Filosofia | es_ES |
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