An evaluation of the xenobotic cognitive project: Towards Stage 1 of xenobotic cognition.

Xenobot, the world's first biological robot, puts numerous philosophical riddles before us. One among them pertains to the cognitive status of these entities. Are these biological robots cognitive? To evaluate the cognitive status of xenobots and to resolve the puzzle of a single mind emerging from smaller sub-units, in this article, I juxtapose the cognitive capacities of xenobots with that of two other minimal models of cognition, i.e., basal cognition and nonliving active matter cognition. Further, the article underlines the essential cognitive capabilities that xenobots need to achieve to enter what I call stage 1 of xenobotic cognition. Stage 1 is characterized by numerous cognitive mechanisms, which are integral for the survival and cognition of basal organisms. Finally, I suggest that developing xenobots that can reach Stage 1 can help us achieve sophistication in the areas of evolution of the human mind, robotics, biology and medicine, and artificial intelligence (AI).

• Publication year

  2024

• Venue

  Endeavour

• Publication date

  2024-04-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Philosophy, Computer Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/j.endeavour.2024.100927PMID 38679490
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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