Understanding Intelligence by Rolf Pfeifer
The book includes all the background material required to understand the principles underlying intelligence, as well as enough detailed information on intelligent robotics and simulated agents so readers can begin experiments and projects on their own.
By the mid-1980s researchers from artificial intelligence, computer science, brain and cognitive science, and psychology realized that the idea of computers as intelligent machines was inappropriate. The brain does not run programs; it does something entirely different. But what? Evolutionary theory says that the brain has evolved not to do mathematical proofs but to control our behavior, to ensure our survival. Researchers now agree that intelligence always manifests itself in behavior--thus it is behavior that we must understand. An exciting new field has grown around the study of behavior-based intelligence, also known as embodied cognitive science, new AI, and behavior-based AI.
This book provides a systematic introduction to this new way of thinking. After discussing concepts and approaches such as subsumption architecture, Braitenberg vehicles, evolutionary robotics, artificial life, self-organization, and learning, the authors derive a set of principles and a coherent framework for the study of naturally and artificially intelligent systems, or autonomous agents. This framework is based on a synthetic methodology whose goal is understanding by designing and building.
The book includes all the background material required to understand the principles underlying intelligence, as well as enough detailed information on intelligent robotics and simulated agents so readers can begin experiments and projects on their own. The reader is guided through a series of case studies that illustrate the design principles of embodied cognitive science.
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Matter and Consciousness
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The Engine of Reason, the Seat of the Soul
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Touch
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About Face
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The Hot Brain
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Streetlights and Shadows
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Beyond Modularity
- Metaphor in Context
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The Revision Theory of Truth
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Vagueness
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On the Contrary
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Pattern Recognition by Self-Organising Neural Networks
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The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences
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The Psychology of Proof
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Cellular Biophysics
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An Odd Kind of Fame
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Spatial Schemas and Abstract Thought
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Radical Embodied Cognitive Science
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Neither Brain Nor Ghost
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Parts and Places
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Brain, Vision, Memory
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Social Cognition
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New Essays on Semantic Externalism and Self-Knowledge
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High-Level Vision
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A Natural History of Vision
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Evolution and Human Behavior
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Memory Systems, 1994
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Artificial Minds
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An Introduction to Neural Networks
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The Mind within the Net
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780262161817 |
| ISBN 10 | 0262161818 |
| Title | Understanding Intelligence |
| Author | Rolf Pfeifer |
| Series | Bradford Books |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | MIT Press Ltd |
| Year published | 1999-09-24 |
| Number of pages | 700 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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