UID:
edoccha_9958122895102883
Format:
1 online resource (354 p.)
ISBN:
1-282-85202-7
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9786612852022
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1-897425-79-1
Content:
From Bricks to Brains introduces embodied cognitive science, and illustrates its foundational ideas through the construction and observation of LEGO Mindstorms robots.Discussing the characteristics that distinguish embodied cognitive science from classical cognitive science, From Bricks to Brains places a renewed emphasis on sensing and acting, the importance of embodiment, the exploration of distributed notions of control, and the development of theories by synthesizing simple systems and exploring their behaviour. Numerous examples are used to illustrate a key theme: the importance of an age
Note:
Mind control - internal or external? -- Classical music and the classical mind -- Situated cognition and bricolage -- Braitenberg's vehicle 2 -- Thoughtless walkers -- Machina speculatrix -- The subsumption architecture -- Embodiment, stigmergy, and swarm intelligence -- Totems, toys -- or tools?
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-897425-78-3
Language:
English
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