I will discuss experiments with an electronic device made by the MICREAgents project, a 128×128 lattice of ‘smart’ electrodes. The electrodes are programmable from a host (connected by USB, with ipython notebook client), and they may interact with electrochemically and/or biologically active environments in a droplet lying over the device. One goal of these experiments is to implement evolutionary processes. I will discuss emergence of agency in such systems, focusing on the issues of definition and detection, both in theory and in experimental praxis.
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Agency in the Physical Sciences 