| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 367 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Complex adaptive systems
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Complex adaptive systems.
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| Note |
"A Bradford book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-352) and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Intentionalism.
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Intentionalism. |
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Philosophy of mind.
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Philosophy of mind. |
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Philosophical anthropology.
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Philosophical anthropology. |
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Cognitive science.
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Cognitive science. |
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Artificial intelligence.
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Artificial intelligence. |
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Cognition. |
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Behavior. |
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Evolution. |
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Models, Psychological. |
| Indexed Term |
Humans Behaviour Effects of Mental processes |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hendriks-Jansen, Horst. Catching ourselves in the act. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1996 0262082462 (DLC) 96000972 (OCoLC)34246077 |
| ISBN |
0585003335 (electronic book) |
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9780585003337 (electronic book) |
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9780262082464 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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0262082462 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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0262082462 |
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