On: Wednesday, November 2nd, 6PM At: City Crab Shack (10 E 16th st, in Manhattan)
Agents are of central importance to cognitive science, but research usually takes them as pre-given and proceeds to study some of their particular aspects, often without awareness of or a definite answer to the question, "what is agent?" In order to get a handle on this question, it is useful to consider what might be considered minimal examples of agency--protocells that maintain their individuality by interacting adaptively with their environment. Join us in a discussion with Dr. Eran Agmon (Columbia) who will describe a computational method for studying protocells, and the consequences of these results on the foundation of cognitive science.