Nicholas Agar, 2010. Humanity's End, Massachusetts, The MIT Press, 219 pp.

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One of the main limitations of scalability in body-brain evolution systems is the representation chosen for encoding creatures. This paper defines a class of representations called generative representations, which are identified by their ability to reuse elements of the genotype in the translation to the phenotype. This paper presents an example of a generative representation for the concurren...

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Neuronal adaptation as well as interdischarge interval correlations have been shown to be functionally important properties of physiological neu-rons. We explore the dynamics of a modified leaky integrate-and-fire (LIF) neuron, referred to as the LIF with threshold fatigue, and show that it reproduces these properties. In this model, the postdischarge threshold reset depends on the preceding se...

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