Miguel Aguilera   complex systems, neuroscience and cognition

Journal Publications

  1. Aguilera M, Igarashi, M & Shimazaki, H (2023). Nonequilibrium thermodynamics of the asymmetric Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model. Nature Communications 14, 3685.
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  2. Aguilera, M, Millidge, B, Tschantz, A & Buckley, CL (2022). How particular is the physics of the free energy principle?. Physics of Life Reviews 40:24-50.
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  3. Aguilera, M, Moosavi, SA & Shimazaki H (2021). A unifying framework for mean-field theories of asymmetric kinetic Ising systems. Nature Communications 12, 1197.
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  4. Aguilera, M & Di Paolo, EA (2021). Critical integration in neural and cognitive systems: Beyond power-law scaling as the hallmark of soft assembly. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 123.
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  5. Aguilera, M & Di Paolo, EA (2019). Integrated information in the thermodynamic limit. Neural Networks, Volume 114, pp 136-146.
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  6. Aguilera, M. (2019). Scaling Behaviour and Critical Phase Transitions in Integrated Information Theory. Entropy, 21(12), 1198.
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  7. Aguilera, M & Bedia, MG (2018). Adaptation to criticality through organizational invariance in embodied agents. Scientific Reports volume 8, Article number: 7723 (2018).
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  8. Aguilera, M (2018). Rhythms of the collective brain: Metastable synchronization and cross-scale interactions in connected multitudes. Complexity Volume 2018, Article ID 4212509.
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  9. Aguilera, M & Bedia, MG (2018). Exploring Criticality as a Generic Adaptive Mechanism. Frontiers in Neurorobotics 12: 55.
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  10. Aguilera M, Bedia MG and Barandiaran XE (2016) Extended Neural Metastability in an Embodied Model of Sensorimotor Coupling. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience 10:76.
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  11. Monterde, A, Calleja-López, A, Aguilera, M, Barandiaran, XE, & Postill, J (2015). Multitudinous identities: a qualitative and network analysis of the 15M collective identity. Information, Communication and Society.
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  12. Aguilera M, Barandiaran XE, Bedia MG, Seron F (2015) Self-Organized Criticality, Plasticity and Sensorimotor Coupling. Explorations with a Neurorobotic Model in a Behavioural Preference Task. PLoS ONE 10(2): e0117465. \ DOI

  13. Bedia, MG, Aguilera, M, Gomez, T, Larrode, DG, & Seron, F (2014). Quantifying long-range correlations and 1/f patterns in a minimal experiment of social interaction. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 1281.
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  14. Aguilera, M, Bedia, MG, Barandiaran, XE. & Serón, F (2014). Intermittent animal behaviour: the adjustment deployment dilemma. Artificial Life, 20(4), 471–489.
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  15. Aguilera, M, Bedia, MG, Santos, BA, Barandiaran, XE (2013). The Situated HKB Model: how sensorimotor spatial coupling can alter oscillatory brain dynamics. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience 7 (2013): 117.
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  16. Santos, BA, Barandiaran, XE, Husbands, P, Aguilera, M & Bedia, M G. (2012). Sensorimotor coordination and metastability in a situated HKB model. Connection Science.
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  17. [Commentary] Aguilera, M & Buckley, CL (2022). Recurent, nonequilibrium systems and the Markov blanket assumption. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 45:184.
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  18. [Commentary] Aguilera, M (2022). The nonequilibrium boundaries of living systems. Physics of Life Reviews 43:23-25.
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Conference Publications

  1. Aguilera, M & Barandiaran, XE (2024). Thermina: A minimal model of autonomous agency from the lens of stochastic thermodynamics. ALIFE 2024: Proceedings of the 2024 Artificial Life Conference.

  2. Aguilera, M & Kolchinsky, A (2023). Quantifying higher-order entropy production in organized nonequilibrium states. ALIFE 2023: Ghost in the Machine: Proceedings of the 2023 Artificial Life Conference.

  3. Spychala, N & Aguilera, M (2023). Exploring the relation of variational inference and integrated information in a minimal model. ALIFE 2023: Ghost in the Machine: Proceedings of the 2023 Artificial Life Conference.

  4. Aguilera, M, Poc-López, A, Heins, C & Buckley CL (2022). Knitting a Markov Blanket is Hard When You are Out-of-Equilibrium: Two Examples in Canonical Nonequilibrium Models. IWAI 2022: International Workshop on Active Inference pp 65–74.

  5. Heins, C, Brennan, K, Demekas, D, Aguilera, M & Buckley CL (2022). Spin Glass Systems as Collective Active Inference. IWAI 2022: International Workshop on Active Inference pp 75–98.

  6. Poc-López, A & Aguilera, M (2021). Inference in Neural Networks Using Conditional Mean-Field Methods. International Conference on Neural Information Processing ICONIP 2021, pp 228-237.

  7. Vakhrameev, D, Aguilera, M, Barandiaran, XE & Bedia MG (2020). Measuring Autonomy for Life-Like AI. ALIFE 2020: The 2020 Conference on Artificial Life. pp. 589-591.

  8. Aguilera, M, Arandia-Romero, I & Heras-Escribano, M (2019). Quantifying affordances through information theory. The 2019 Conference on Artificial Life, 31, 11-12.

  9. Bedia, MG, Heras-Escribano, M., Cajal, D, Aguilera, M, & Barandiaran, XE (2019). Towards modelling social habits: An organismically inspired evolutionary robotics approach. The 2019 Conference on Artificial Life, 31, 341-348.

  10. Aguilera, M & Di Paolo, E (2018). Integrated Information and Autonomy in the Thermodynamic Limit . The 2018 Conference on Artificial Life: A Hybrid of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL) and the International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (ALIFE) 2018: 113-120.

  11. Aguilera, M, Alquézar, C & Bedia, MG (2018). Agency and Integrated Information in a Minimal Sensorimotor Model. The 2018 Conference on Artificial Life: A Hybrid of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL) and the International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (ALIFE) 2018: 396-403

  12. Aguilera, M & Bedia MG (2017). Criticality as It Could Be: organizational invariance as self-organized criticality in embodied agents. In Knibbe et al. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Artificial Life 2017.

  13. Aguilera, M, Alquézar, C & Izquierdo, E (2017). Signatures of criticality in a maximum entropy model of the C. elegans brain during free behaviour. In Knibbe et al. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Artificial Life 2017.

  14. Gómez, T, Aguilera, M, Bedia MG & Gomila, A (2017). The Statistical Thermodynamics of Active Perception. In Knibbe et al. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Artificial Life 2017.

  15. Izquierdo, EJ, Aguilera, M and Beer, RD (2013). Analysis of ultrastability in small dynamical recurrent neural networks. In P. Lio, O. Miglino, G. Nicosia, S. Nolfi & M. Pavone (Eds.), Advances in Artificial Life: ECAL 2013 (pp. 51-58).

  16. Aguilera, M, Morer, I, Barandiaran, XE & Bedia, MG (2013). Quantifying Political Self-Organization in Social Media. Fractal patterns in the Spanish 15M movement on Twitter. In P. Lio, O. Miglino, G. Nicosia, S. Nolfi & M. Pavone (Eds.), Advances in Artificial Life: ECAL 2013 (pp. 395-402).

  17. Castillo, LF, Isaza, AL, Bedia, MG, Aguilera, M Correa, J (2012). Grid Computing and CBR Deployment: Monitoring Principles for a Suitable Engagement. 9TH Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, 2012, Volume 51/2012, 355-361.

  18. Aguilera, M, Bedia, MG, Barandiaran, XE & Serón, F (2011). The adjustment-deployment dilemma in organism’s behaviour: theoretical characterization and minimal model. Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life, pp. 116-123.

  19. Castillo, LF, Bedia, MG, Aguilera, M, & Uribe, AL (2011). A proposal for improving retrieval processes in case-based reasoning systems able to act in dynamic environments. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence 2011.

  20. Castillo, LF, Bedia, MG, Aguilera, M, Uribe AL, Manrique, M & Isaza, G (2011). Case-based reasoning and real-time systems: exploiting successfully poorer solutions. Proceedings of the 6th Colombian Computing Congress.

Books & Book Chapters

  1. Vila-Viñas, M. Aguilera, G. Valenzuela, & A. Quintana (Eds.), Etopia_ciudadana. Comunidades productivas para la economía social del conocimiento. Zaragoza: Universidad de Zaragoza. ISBN 978-84-16723-06-5.

  2. Barandiaran, X. E., & Aguilera, M. (2015). Neurociencia y tecnopolítica: hacia un marco analógico para comprender la mente colectiva del 15M. En J. Toret (Ed.), Tecnopolítica y 15M. La potencia de las multitudes conectadas (pp. 163-211). Barcelona: Editorial UOC. ISBN: 978-84-9064-458-4

  3. Aguilera, M (2015) La conciencia red de la multitud conectada: la mente colectiva del 15M. In Toret, J. (Ed.).  Tecnopolítica y 15M. La potencia de las multitudes conectadas (pp. 144-161). Barcelona: Editorial UOC. ISBN: 978-84-9064-458-4

Dissertations and Thesis

PhD thesis dissertation

  1. Aguilera, M (2015). Interaction Dynamics and Autonomy in Cognitive Systems. PhD thesis, University of Zaragoza, Spain.

Master’s Thesis

  1. Aguilera, M. (2011). Coordination Dynamics in the Sensorimotor Loop. Master’s thesis, University of Zaragoza, Spain.

BS Final Year Project

  1. Aguilera, M. (2010). Efectos no lineales de la integración de capacidades emocionales en agentes inteligentes. Final Year Project, University of Zaragoza, Spain.