Emergence and Autonomous Agency
Barandiaran, Xabier E.
- Publication year:
- 2025
- Publication place:
- Donostia
- Characteristics:
- BIBLID [0212-7016; eISSN: 2953-4180 (2025), 70, 2]. - Recep.: 17-09-2025; Acep.: 02-01-2026
- DOI:
- doi.org/10.61879/riev702zkia202511
- ISSN:
- 0212-7016; eISSN: 2953-4180
Summary
Emergentism seeks to reconcile material reality with the complexity of biological and psychological phenomena, rejecting both dualism and reductionism while preserving scientific unity across levels. This paper traces the emergence of agency, from the self-maintaining organization of protocells to human autonomy, arguing that far-from-equilibrium autonomous systems ground a distinctive form of causality (where actions replace events, norms replace laws, and goals replace equilibria) that characterizes agents.
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