Toward aitiopoietic cognition: bridging the evolutionary divide between biological and machine-learned causal systems.
Frontiers in cognition 2025 Tomas Veloz
We examine and compare autopoietic systems (biological organisms) and machine learning systems (MLSs) highlighting crucial differences in how causal reasoning emerges and operates. Despite superficial functional similarities in behavior and cognitive abilities, we identify profound structural differences in how causality is operationalized, physically embodied, and epistemologically grounded....