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(This is the seminar which was postponed one week because of
illness.)
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 Maastricht, 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
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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
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Francis Heylighen
Evolution, Complexity and Cognition group
Free University of Brussels
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/HEYL.html
Francis Heylighen
Evolution, Complexity and Cognition group
Free University of Brussels
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/HEYL.html
