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Enaction, Embodiment, Evolutionary Robotics : Simulation Models for a Post-Cognitivist Science of Mind / by Marieke Rohde
Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Atlantis Thinking Machines ; 1 | SpringerLink BücherPublisher: Paris : Atlantis Press, 2010Description: Online-Ressource (XXXIV, 242p, digital)ISBN:- 9789491216343
- 006.3
- 629.8 629.8/92 629.892
- Q334-342 TJ210.2-211.495
- Q334-342
- TJ210.2-211.495
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Summary: The book Enaction, Embodiment, Evolutionary Robotics proposes how a particular kind of simulation model, i.e. Evolutionary Robotics simulations, can help to solve several problems in Cognitive Science. Examples discussed in the book ranges from motor control, neuroscientific theory, social contingency and time perception. It is argued that methodological minimalism can be a merit, not a shortcoming, even when studying something as complex as the human mind. The book concludes by proposing a new minimalist interdisciplinary framework for the study of perception, combining simulation modeling, experimental methods and accounts of subjective experience. This book endorses an enactive and constructivist view on the human mind, in opposition to the traditional information-processing view. Furthermore, the book discusses and presents the enactive approach, clarifies the assets of this view and how it differs from other proposed alternatives to the computationalist paradigm in AI and Cognitive Science, crucial and missing in the ongoing embodied turn. The book also presents new experimental results on a number of topics and points out connections between them. Finally, the book proposes a novel framework for the study of perception that combines a number of methods, including computational modeling, in a previously unseen and promising way.PPN: PPN: 1651282447Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-2-SCS
Atlantis Thinking Machines; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Figures; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Enactive Cognitive Science; 2.1 The Rise and Fall of Traditional Cognitive Science; 2.2 Alternative Paradigms; 2.2.1 Connectionism; 2.2.2 Dynamicism; 2.2.3 Cybernetics, ALife, Behaviour Based Robotics; 2.2.4 Minimal Representationalism and Extended Mind; 2.2.5 Methodological Overlap, Ideology Worlds Apart; 2.3 The Enactive Approach; 2.3.1 Autonomy; 2.3.2 Sense-Making; 2.3.3 Emergence; 2.3.4 Embodiment; 2.3.5 Experience; 2.3.6 The Roots
2.4 Challenges, Criticisms and Simulation ModelsChapter 3: Methods and Methodology; 3.1 The Scientist as Observing Subject; 3.2 Dynamical Systems Theory; 3.2.1 Definition; 3.2.2 The Explanatory Role of DST; 3.3 Simulation Models, Evolutionary Robotics and CTRNN Controllers; 3.3.1 Evolutionary Robotics Simulations; 3.3.2 Simulation Models as Scientific Tools; 3.4 Sensory Substitution and Sensorimotor Recalibration; 3.5 The Study of Experience; 3.5.1 First and Second Person Methods to Study Experience; 3.5.2 Perceptual Judgements as Second Person Method?
3.6 Combining Experimental, Experiential and Modelling ApproachesChapter 4: Linear Synergies as a Principle in Motor Control; 4.1 Motor Synergies; 4.1.1 The Degree-of-Freedom Problem and Motor Synergies; 4.1.2 Directional Pointing; 4.2 Model; 4.3 Results; 4.3.1 Number of Degrees of Freedom; 4.3.2 Forcing Linear Synergy; 4.3.3 Evolved Synergies; 4.4 Discussion; Chapter 5: An Exploration of Value Systems Architectures; 5.1 Value Systems; 5.1.1 Reductionist Approaches and Value System Architectures; 5.1.2 Value System Simulation; 5.2 Model; 5.3 Results
5.3.1 Co-evolution of Light-Seeking and Fitness Estimation5.3.2 A Caricature of 'Value-Guided Learning'; 5.4 Discussion; 5.5 Enactive Sense Making, Value Generation,Meaning Construction; 5.6 Conclusion; Chapter 6: Perceptual Crossing in One Dimension; 6.1 Perceptual Crossing in a One-Dimensional Environment; 6.2 Model; 6.3 Results; 6.4 Discussion; Chapter 7: Perceptual Crossing in Two Dimensions; 7.1 Perceptual Crossing in a Two-Dimensional Environment; 7.2 Model; 7.3 Results; 7.3.1 Evolvability; 7.3.2 Behavioural Strategies Evolved; 7.3.3 Two-Wheeled Agent; 7.3.4 'Euclidean' Agent
7.3.5 Arm Agent7.4 Discussion; Chapter 8: The Embodiment of Time; 8.1 Newton Meets Descartes: The Classical Approach; 8.2 Time and its Many Dimensions in our Mind; 8.3 Phenomenology; 8.4 The Construction of Time; 8.5 Findings on Cognitive Concepts of Time; 8.6 The Brain, the World and Time Perception; 8.7 Time Experience; Chapter 9: An Experiment on Adaptation to Tactile Delays; 9.1 Adaptation to Sensory Delays and the Experience of Simultaneity; 9.2 Methods; 9.3 Results; Chapter 10: Simulating the Experiment on Tactile Delays; 10.1 Model; 10.2 Results; 10.2.1 Systematic Displacements
10.2.2 Stereotyped Trajectories
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