Emergence of intentional procedures in self-organizing neural networks

Henri Atlan

Yoram Louzoun

pp. 47-56

in: Causality, meaningful complexity and embodied cognition, Berlin, Springer, 2010

Abstract

We have used a neural network formalism in order to analyze under which conditions a positive answer could be given to the following question: can neural networks self-organize so that not only structures and functions not explicitly programmed emerge from their dynamics, but also goals for intentional actions, set up and achieved by themselves?