| Description |
1 online resource (332 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-328) and index. |
| Contents |
Mind control -- internal or external? -- Classical music and the classical mind -- Situated cognition and bricolage -- Braitenberg's vehicle 2 -- Thoughtless walkers -- Machina speculatrix -- Subsumption architecture -- Embodiment, stigmergy, and swarm intelligence -- Totems, toys -- or tools? |
| Summary |
"From Bricks to Brains introduces embodied cognitive science, and illustrates its foundational ideas through the construction and observation of LEGO Mindstorms robots. Discussing the characteristics that distinguish embodied cognitive science from classical cognitive science, From Bricks to Brains places a renewed emphasis on sensing and acting, the importance of embodiment, the exploration of distributed notions of control, and the development of theories by synthesizing simple systems and exploring their behaviour. Numerous examples are used to illustrate a key theme: the importance of an agent's environment. Even simple agents, such as LEGO robots, are capable of exhibiting complex behaviour when they can sense and affect the world around them."--Publisher's description. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Robots -- Programming.
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Robots -- Programming. |
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Robots -- Dynamics.
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Robots -- Dynamics. |
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Cognitive science.
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Cognitive science. |
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Robots -- Design and construction.
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Robots -- Design and construction. |
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Robots. |
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Artificial intelligence.
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Artificial intelligence. |
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LEGO toys.
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LEGO toys. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Dupuis, Brian, 1984-
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Wilson, Michael, 1987-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Dawson, Michael Robert William, 1959- From bricks to brains. Edmonton : AU Press, ©2010 9781897425787 (DLC) 2010497071 (OCoLC)606119122 |
| ISBN |
9781897425794 (electronic book) |
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1897425791 (electronic book) |
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9781897425787 |
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1897425783 |
| Standard No. |
9786612852022 |
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