Agents from Functional-Computational Perspective

The contribution sketches a functional-computational typological scale of agentsstarting form the reactive ones, and puts the family of (at least minimally) conscious agentsinto the proposed typology. Then it discusses the traditional computational properties ofagents according their types, and sketches a way of a rather non-traditional computationalcharacterization of conscious agents using the concept of hyper-computation. Thecontribution ends with relating the sketched formal approach to agents with agentsembodiment, and relates embodiment of agents with their emergence of hypercomputationalpower.