TY - CONF T1 - Meaningful Information, Sensor Evolution, and the Temporal Horizon of Embodied Organisms T2 - Artificial Life VIII: Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Artificial Life Y1 - 2002 A1 - Nehaniv, Chrystopher L A1 - Daniel Polani A1 - Kerstin Dautenhahn A1 - René te Boekhorst A1 - Lola Cañamero ED - Russell Standish ED - Mark A Bedau ED - Hussein A Abbass AB - We survey and outline how an agent-centered, information-theoretic approach to meaningful information extending classical Shannon information theory by means of utility measures relevant for the goals of particular agents can be applied to sensor evolution for real and constructed organisms. Furthermore, we discuss the relationship of this approach to the programme of freeing artificial life and robotic systems from reactivity, by describing useful types of information with broader temporal horizon, for signaling, communication, affective grounding, two-process learning, individual learning, imitation and social learning, and episodic experiential information (memories, narrative, and culturally transmitted information). JF - Artificial Life VIII: Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Artificial Life PB - MIT Press CY - Sydney, Australia SN - 9780262692816 ER -