Apologies to those planning to come to the seminar tomorrow, but because of several illnesses in the ECCO group, we have cancelled this week's Friday seminar, and decided to postpone it until next week.
So, the corrected announcement of the next seminar is now: Applications of embodied and situated cognition by Dirk Bollen (ECCO, VUB) http://users.telenet.be/dirkbollen/ Place: room 3C204 (building C, 3rd floor), <http://www.vub.ac.be/english/campEt.html>VUB campus Oefenplein Time: Friday, March 4, at 17:30 h. Abstract: Two main approaches can be distinguished in Artificial Intelligence (AI), that differ fundamentally in their theoretical assumptions concerning intelligence and behavior; traditional representational AI and embodied and situated cognitive science. Most of the history of AI is dominated by traditional, representational, AI. Recently, a new approach, embodied and situated cognitive science, has challenged the view of traditional AI. Embodied and situated cognitive science employs a non-representational view, and assumes that intelligence and behavior are the result of the ongoing interaction between body and environment, rather than the result of computations applied to representations, as most representationalists assume.This seminar discusses the strength of embodied and situated models in explaining biological behavior and psychological phenomena. By describing several concrete models we are showing that embodied and situated models of cognition provides new insights and is complementary to sciences as biology and psychology. Further we take a glance at the future research that is going to be done at ECCO concerning an embodied and situated approach to sensor networks. More info: Bollen D., <http://users.telenet.be/dirkbollen/papers/repres2n.pdf>Representation in situated models of cognition, paper university of Maastrich(nl), 2003 ECCO seminar programme following weeks Laetitia De Jaegher: The need for new systems of governance in a complex, changing society Erden G�ktepe: Complex systems models of the emergence of actors in international relations Klaas Chielens: Empirical measurement of memetic selection criteria Nathalie Gontier: A systems/symbiotic view of evolution Nick Deschacht: Complexity Theory and Marxism -- Francis Heylighen "Evolution, Complexity and Cognition" research group Free University of Brussels http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/HEYL.htmlTitle: POSTPONED: Seminar: embodied and situated cognition
Apologies to those planning to come to the seminar tomorrow, but
because of several illnesses in the ECCO group, we have cancelled
this week's Friday seminar, and decided to postpone it until next
week.
So, the corrected announcement of the next seminar is now:
Applications of embodied and
situated cognition
by
Dirk Bollen
(ECCO, VUB)
http://users.telenet.be/dirkbollen/
Place: room 3C204 (building C, 3rd floor), VUB campus
Oefenplein
Time: Friday, March
4, at 17:30 h.
Abstract:
Two main approaches can be distinguished in Artificial
Intelligence (AI), that differ fundamentally in their theoretical
assumptions concerning intelligence and behavior; traditional
representational AI and embodied and situated cognitive science. Most
of the history of AI is dominated by traditional,
representational, AI. Recently, a new approach, embodied and situated
cognitive science, has challenged the view of traditional AI.
Embodied and situated cognitive science employs a
non-representational view, and assumes that intelligence and behavior
are the result of the ongoing interaction between body and
environment, rather than the result of computations applied to
representations, as most representationalists assume.This seminar
discusses the strength of embodied and situated models in explaining
biological behavior and psychological phenomena. By describing
several concrete models we are showing that embodied and situated
models of cognition provides new insights and is complementary to
sciences as biology and psychology.
Further we take a glance at the future research that is going to
be done at ECCO concerning an embodied and situated approach to
sensor networks.
More info:
Bollen D., Representation in situated models of cognition, paper university
of Maastrich(nl), 2003
ECCO seminar programme following weeks
- Laetitia De Jaegher: The need for new systems of governance in a complex, changing society
- Erden G�ktepe: Complex systems models of the emergence of actors in international relations
- Klaas Chielens: Empirical measurement of memetic selection criteria
- Nathalie Gontier: A systems/symbiotic view of evolution
- Nick Deschacht: Complexity Theory and Marxism
--
Francis Heylighen
"Evolution, Complexity and Cognition" research group
Free University of Brussels
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/HEYL.html
Francis Heylighen
"Evolution, Complexity and Cognition" research group
Free University of Brussels
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/HEYL.html
