"How the Body Shapes the Way We Think - A New View of Intelligence"
By Rolf Pfeifer and Josh C. Bongard
Foreword by Rodney Brooks
How could the body influence our thinking when it seems obvious that
the brain controls the body? In How the Body Shapes the Way We Think,
Rolf Pfeifer and Josh Bongard demonstrate that thought is not
independent of the body but is tightly constrained, and at the same
time enabled, by it. They argue that the kinds of thoughts we are
capable of have their foundation in our embodiment--in our morphology
and the material properties of our bodies.
This crucial notion of embodiment underlies fundamental changes in
the field of artificial intelligence over the past two decades, and
Pfeifer and Bongard use the basic methodology of artificial
intelligence--"understanding by building"--to describe their
insights. If we understand how to design and build intelligent
systems, they reason, we will better understand intelligence in
general. In accessible, nontechnical language, and using many
examples, they introduce the basic concepts by building on recent
developments in robotics, biology, neuroscience, and psychology to
outline a possible theory of intelligence. They illustrate
applications of such a theory in ubiquitous computing, business and
management, and the psychology of human memory. Embodied
intelligence, as described by Pfeifer and Bongard, has important
implications for our understanding of both natural and artificial intelligence.
<http://www.amazon.de/How-Body-Shapes-Way-Think/dp/0262162393>Link
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