bioRxiv Preprint Server
April 3, 2022
Andrew Adamatzky, Jordi Vallverdu, Antoni Gandia et al.
4 citations
preprint
Fungal organisms can perceive the outer world in a way similar to what animals sense. Does that mean that they have full awareness of their environment and themselves? Is a fungus a conscious entity? In laboratory experiments we found that fungi produce patterns of electrical activity, similar to neurons. There are low and high frequency oscillations and convoys of spike trains. The neural-like...
Biosystems
March 2018
Jordi Vallverdu, Oscar Castro, Richard Mayne et al.
The slime mould Physarum polycephalum has been used in developing unconventional computing devices for in which the slime mould played a role of a sensing, actuating, and computing device. These devices treated the slime mould as an active living substrate, yet it is a self-consistent living creature which evolved over millions of years and occupied most parts of the world, but in any case,...
Advances in Computational Intelligence and Robotics
January 25, 2017
Jordi Vallverdu, Max O. Talanov
3 citations
The purpose of this chapter is to delineate a naturalistic approach to consciousness. This bioinspired method does not try to emulate into a 1:1 scale real mechanisms but instead of it, we capture some basic brain mechanisms prone to be implemented into computational frameworks. Consequently, we adopt a functional view on consciousness, considering consciousness as one among other cognitive...
IGI Global eBooks
January 18, 2011
David Casacuberta, Saray Ayala, Jordi Vallverdu
7 citations
After several decades of success in different areas and numerous effective applications, algorithmic Artificial Intelligence has revealed its limitations. If in our quest for artificial intelligence we want to understand natural forms of intelligence, we need to shift/move from platform-free algorithms to embodied and embedded agents. Under the embodied perspective, intelligence is not so much...
IGI Global eBooks
2010
David Casacuberta, Saray Ayala, Jordi Vallverdu
10 citations
After several decades of success in different areas and numerous effective applications, algorithmic Artificial Intelligence has revealed its limitations. If in our quest for artificial intelligence we want to understand natural forms of intelligence, we need to shift/move from platform-free algorithms to embodied and embedded agents. Under the embodied perspective, intelligence is not so much...