… of certain ’cognitive homeostatic variables’. We present an outline of a Cognitive Homeostatic
Agent, built as a hierarchy of physiological and cognitive homeostatic subsystems and …

… the fundamental control problems posed by homeostasis (ie inferring the optimal policy for …
vital contribution in establishing the agent’s understanding of itself qua autonomous agent (cf. …

… agents, while marginal rituals with low homeostatic intentionality only have vague
representations of the supernatural agent (… Representations of supernatural agents in low arousal …

… agent architectures and theoretically-derived intrinsic reward functions. Finally we empirically
demonstrate that agents with … Our survival agents can learn to eat food, avoid poison and …

… of cognitive science. Simply put, … homeostatic processes, the organism or the artificial agent
can function and stay alive in a “viability zone”. While trying to design artificially homeostatic (…

… , I explore cognitive systems in the context of new understanding of life's distinctive nature, in
particular the core concept of homeostasis, … of agents within solid brains, but also the agents …

… The homeostatic agent is not meant to be a good model of how humans adapt to visual
inversion (crucial factors such as kinesthetic and tactile modalities are ignored), the origin-of-…

… It is, however, worth noting that Cohen’s final point, referring to the use of experience to
update internal structures of the agents within a cognitive system can be thought of as a learning …

… cognitive and autonomic brain systems, which in turn form networks involved in the control of
appetite and thermogenesis, also contribute to energy homeostasis. … of energy homeostasis …

… and homeostatic regulation – and use the principles from these cases to show how cognitive
… to the self-experience of being a cognitive–affective agent. We conclude with directions for …