Living Automatic Intelligence

In this experiment (video), a simulated organism explores a world in which its own nervous system is embodied as physical matter surrounding it.  This means that the virtual agent can literally see its own brain, and potentially interact with it!

Consider that the signals crossing between the organism and its external reality form a super-organism.  Imagine that the landscape, and sky, were also organisms – and that their “nervous systems” were short-circuited with the spider’s…