Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: How Morphological Computation shapes Integrated Information in Embodied
  Agents   The Integrated Information Theory provides a quantitative approach to
consciousness and can be applied to neural networks. An embodied agent
controlled by such a network influences and is being influenced by its
environment. This involves, on the one hand, morphological computation within
goal directed action and, on the other hand, integrated information within the
controller, the agent's brain. In this article, we combine different methods in
order to examine the information flows among and within the body, the brain and
the environment of an agent. This allows us to relate various information flows
to each other. We test this framework in a simple experimental setup. There, we
calculate the optimal policy for goal-directed behavior based on the "planning
as inference" method, in which the information-geometric em-algorithm is used
to optimize the likelihood of the goal. Morphological computation and
integrated information are then calculated with respect to the optimal
policies. Comparing the dynamics of these measures under changing morphological
circumstances highlights the antagonistic relationship between these two
concepts. The more morphological computation is involved, the less information
integration within the brain is required. In order to determine the influence
of the brain on the behavior of the agent it is necessary to additionally
measure the information flow to and from the brain.

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The categories of this paper are: hep-ph
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The categories of this paper are: math-ph
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The categories of this paper are: comp-gas
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The categories of this paper are: hep-ex
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The categories of this paper are: alg-geom
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The categories of this paper are: hep-lat
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The categories of this paper are: physics
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The categories of this paper are: plasm-ph
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The categories of this paper are: hep-th
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The categories of this paper are: atom-ph
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The categories of this paper are: gr-qc
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The categories of this paper are: nlin
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The categories of this paper are: chem-ph