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General Theory of Exobehaviours: A New
Proposal to Unify Behaviors

Sergio Miguel Tome

Universidad de Salamanca
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Abstract. Nowadays science has not found a way to unify the behavior
of biological and autonomous nonbiological systems. While psychology
uses the property of intelligence as a basis for explaining cognitive be-
haviors, artificial intelligence has been unable to explain that property
and provide to nonbiological systems with it. In addition, discoveries in
the last decade have demonstrated the existence of random and cyclic
behaviors in nature that complicate the possibility of unifying the be-
haviors that are known so far in living organisms. This article presents a
new proposal, called general theory of exobehavior, to explain behaviors
in a unified way of biological and autonomous non-biological systems,
and achieve a foundation for AI as a science.

Keywords: behaviors, unification, general theory of exobehavior.

1 Introduction

Science tries to explain sets of phenomena of nature through the scientific method.
One of the sets that it is trying to explain is the behaviors of living beings. The
research to achieve an explanation for the behavior of living things has been very
extensive, and it even generated new scientific disciplines. During research, sci-
ence has sought to clarify the physiological mechanisms that generate behaviors
as well as theories capable of predict them. Some of the findings and studies that
have led to the current state on the issue are briefly exposed here. In the 18th
century, Luigi Galvani's investigations led him to propose that animal brains
generate electricity to move the muscles. It is also important to say that in 1727
the French astronomer de Mairan reported that the movement of leaves in some
plants arose from an endogenous rhythm. In the 19th century, it is worth noting
Franz Joseph Gall's proposal that the mental functions of humans were found in
specific brain areas, which was proved in 1861 by Paul Broca when he located
the speech center in the brain. Returning to more general works, the investiga-
tions of Ivan Mikhaylovich Sechenov on reflexes and brain were central to Ivan
Pavlov, who later made an experimentally proven theory of conditioned reflexes.

I wish to thank Dr. Luis Alonso Romero for his support to my work in the line of
research that is presented in this article and his comments, and Dr. Rodolfo Llinas
for our long and valuable discussions about intelligence.