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Catching ourselves in the act : situated activity, interactive emergence, evolution, and human thought /

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hendriks-Jansen, Horst
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1996.
Series:Complex adaptive systems.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Situated robotics, natural selection, and cultural scaffolding: The ingredients of a historical explanation
  • Computers, models and theories
  • Internal representation and natural selection: Epistemological and ontological strains in the cignitive approach
  • Connectionism: Its promise and limitations as currently conceived
  • Scientific explanation of behavior: The approach through formal task definition
  • Scientific explanation of behavior: The logic of evolution and 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 and " Orienting Attitudes "
  • Critiques and modifications of the basic concepts of Ethology
  • Ethological explanations of the integration of activity patterns
  • The explanatory relation of the integration of activity patterns
  • The explanatory relation between ethology and autonomous agent research
  • Species-Typical activity patterns of human infants
  • Language and the emergence of intentionality
  • Situated activity, cultural scaffolding, and acts
  • An explanatory framework that reconciles biology and culture
  • Index.