Preliminary Considerations for a Quantitative Theory of Networked Embodied Intelligence.

This paper exposes and discusses the concept of 'networked embodied cognition', based on natural embodied neural networks, with some considerations on the nature of natural collective intelligence and cognition, and with reference to natural biological examples, evolution theory, neural network science and technology results, network robotics. It shows that this could be the method of cognitive adaptation to the environment most widely used by living systems and most fit to the deployment of artificial robotic networks. Some preliminary ideas about the development of a quantitative framework are shortly discussed. On the basis of the work of many people a few approximate simple quantitative relations are derived between information metrics of the phase space behavior of the agent dynamical system and those of the cognition system perceived by an external observer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]