Catching Ourselves in the Act uses situated robotics, ethology, and developmental psychology to erect a new framework for explaining human behavior. Rejecting the cognitive science orthodoxy that formal task-descriptions and their implementation are fundamental to an explanation of mind, Horst Hendriks-Jansen argues for an alternative model based on the notion of interactive emergence. Situated activity and interactive emergence are concepts that derive from the new discipline of autonomous agent research. Hendriks-Jansen ...
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Catching Ourselves in the Act uses situated robotics, ethology, and developmental psychology to erect a new framework for explaining human behavior. Rejecting the cognitive science orthodoxy that formal task-descriptions and their implementation are fundamental to an explanation of mind, Horst Hendriks-Jansen argues for an alternative model based on the notion of interactive emergence. Situated activity and interactive emergence are concepts that derive from the new discipline of autonomous agent research. Hendriks-Jansen puts these notions on a firm philosophical basis and uses them to anchor a "genetic" or "historical" explanation of mental phenomena in species-typical activity patterns that have been selected by a cultural environment of artifacts, language, and intentional scaffolding by adults. Situated robotics, allied with techniques and principles from ethology, allows the testing of hypotheses framed in terms of natural kinds that can be grounded through the theory of natural selection. This approach negotiates the "nature versus nurture" dispute in a radically new way. Catching Ourselves in the Act provides a thorough overview of autonomous agent research in America and Europe, focusing in particular on work by such eminent researchers as Rodney Brooks, Pattie Maes, Maja Mataric, and Rolf Pfeifer. It reassesses the basic principles of artificial life and explores the repercussions of autonomous agent research for human psychology and the philosophy of mind, as well as its affinities with the "contextual revolution" in sociology and anthropology. A Bradford Book. Complex Adaptive Systems
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Minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper. 23x14cm, xii, 367 pp, Series: Complex Adaptive Systems. Contents: Situated Robotics, Natural Selection & Cultural Scaffolding: The Ingredients of a Historical Explanation; Computers, Models & Theories; Internal Representation & Natural Selection: Epistemological & Ontological Strains in the Cognitive Approach; Connectionism: Its Promise & Limitations as Currently Conceived; Scientific Explanation of Behavior: The Approach Through Formal Task Definition; Scientific Explanation of Behavior: The Logic of Evolution & Learning; Toward a Working Definition of Activity: Recent Developments in AI That Try to Come to Terms with the S-Domain; An Examination of Alternative Conceptual Frameworks for Autonomous Agent Research; Models of Behavior Selection; A New Type of Model; Ethology: The Basic Concepts & "Orienting Attitudes"; Critiques & Modifications of the Basic Concepts of Ethology; Ethological Explanations of the Integration of Activity Patterns; The Explanatory Relation between Ethology & Autonomous Agent Research; Species-Typical Activity Patterns of Human infants; Language & the Emergence of Intentionality; Situated Activity, Cultural Scaffolding & Acts; An Explanatory Framework that Reconclies Biology & Culture.
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