Integrated information increases with fitness in the evolution of animats.

One of the hallmarks of biological organisms is their ability to integrate disparate information sources to optimize their behavior in complex environments. How this capability can be quantified and related to the functional complexity of an organism remains a challenging problem, in particular sinc...

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Main Authors: Jeffrey A Edlund, Nicolas Chaumont, Arend Hintze, Christof Koch, Giulio Tononi, Christoph Adami
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-10-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3197648?pdf=render