The information on this website represents the ideas and results from contributors to the Starcat Project and not necessarily that of San Diego State University.    Dr. Joseph Lewis (see Contacts page) conducts the Starcat Research Project and takes full responsibility for the information presented in these web pages.








Starcat is an architecture for open-ended cognitive systems that autonomously adapt their behavior to continuously changing environments. The architecture has roots in a biologically inspired, complex adaptive systems view of cognition. Recent ideas about the nature of autonomous behavior inform its design, resulting in a system whose ongoing coupling with its environment drives its evolution toward new behavior.