Communication processes rely on the production and interpretation of representations, thus an important issue is to understand what types of representations are involved during the emergence of interpretations. Here we present an experiment to evaluate conditions for the emergence of interpretations of different representation types. To design our experiment, we follow biological inspirations a...

We demonstrate artificial evolution in a system that combines physical simulation with competition between creatures. The simulated creatures are constructed using point masses that are connected by oscillating springs. The creatures pull themselves across their 2D environment by varying the amount of friction at different point masses, giving them sticky feet. Creatures combat one another, and...

Human creativity is intimately bound with the objects used in the creative process. Creation, creator, and tools exist as actors in a constantly undulating assemblage, both the weight of each component and the connection between components adapting to present circumstances. What changes in our understanding of creativity, then, need to occur when one of the actors is a non-human object with at ...