<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div>The discussions below regarding "representational redescription" remind me of the following paper:<div class=""><ul style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class=""><span style="line-height: 1.2;" class=""><li style="list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: circle;" class=""><font size="2" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="">R. Sun, </span><a href="http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/~rsun/folder-files/sun-symgen-2012.pdf" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(138, 140, 80); font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="">Autonomous generation of symbolic representations through subsymbolic activities</a><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="">. </span><i style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="">Philosophical Psychology,</i><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class=""> Vol.26, No.6, pp.888-912. 2013. </span></font></li></span></ul><div class="">I will appreciate any feedback on this paper.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">While I am at it, here is another (old) paper on this topic:</div><div class=""><ul style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class=""><span style="line-height: 1.2;" class=""><li style="list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: circle; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: medium;" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: x-small;" class="">R. Sun, E. Merrill, and T. Peterson, </span></font><a href="http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/~rsun/sun.CS99.ps" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(138, 140, 80);" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: x-small;" class="">From implicit skills to explicit knowledge: A bottom-up model of skill learning. </span></font></a><font face="arial, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: x-small;" class="">Cognitive Science, Vol.25, No.2, pp.203-244. 2001. [</span></font><a href="http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/~rsun/sun.cs01.pdf" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(138, 140, 80);" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: x-small;" class="">PDF</span></font></a><font face="arial, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: x-small;" class="">]</span></font></li></span></ul><div class="">as well as this book:</div><div class=""><ul style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class=""><span style="line-height: 1.2;" class=""><li style="list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: circle; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: medium;" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: x-small;" class="">R. Sun, </span></font><a href="http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/~rsun/book6-ann.html" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(138, 140, 80);" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: x-small;" class="">Duality of the Mind</span></font></a><font face="arial, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: x-small;" class="">. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, NJ. 2002.</span></font></li></span></ul></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best regards,</div></div><div class="">-Ron</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 5, 2016, at 4:35 AM, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer <<a href="mailto:pierre-yves.oudeyer@inria.fr" class="">pierre-yves.oudeyer@inria.fr</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class="">Dear colleagues,</div><div class=""><br class="">I am happy to announce the release of the latest issue of the IEEE CIS Newsletter on Cognitive and Developmental Systems (open access, previously names newsletter on Autonomous Mental Development). </div><div class="">This is a biannual newsletter addressing computational modeling of developmental and cognitive processes in natural and artificial organisms, from humans to robots, at the crossroads of cognitive science, developmental psychology, machine intelligence and neuroscience. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It is available at: <a href="https://goo.gl/HQAMsd" class="">https://goo.gl/HQAMsd</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Featuring dialog:<br class=""></div><div class="">=== "Representational redescription: the next challenge?"</div><div class="">== Dialog Initiated by Stéphane Doncieux, with responses from Jessica Kosie and Dare Baldwin, Georges Konidaris, Freek Stulp and Timothy Hospedales, Paul Verschure and Giovanni Pezzulo, Frank Guerin, Paul Abelha and Bipin Indurkhya.</div><div class="">== This issue’s dialog explores various challenges of how and why capabilities to change representations could be happening in robots. In particular, contributors discuss how new representations can be formed out of the dynamic interaction between learning algorithms, cognitive architecture and their physical and social embodiment.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Call for new dialog:</div><div class="">=== "Moving Beyond Nature-Nurture: a Problem of Science or Communication? »</div><div class="">== Dialog initiated by John Spencer, Mark Blumberg and David Shenk</div><div class="">== John Spencer, Mark Blumberg and David Shenk observe that in spite of numerous scientific discoveries supporting the view of development as a complex multi-factored process, the discussions of development in several scientific fields and in the general public are still strongly organized around the nature/nurture distinction. Thus, they ask a crucial question: is this because there is not yet sufficient scientific evidence, or is this because the simplicity of the nature/nurture framework is much easier to communicate (or just better communicated by its supporters)? Those of you interested in reacting to this dialog initiation are welcome to submit a response by April 15th, 2015. The length of each response must be between 600 and 800 words including references (contact <a href="mailto:pierre-yves.oudeyer@inria.fr" class="">pierre-yves.oudeyer@inria.fr</a>).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You will also find news about the IEEE CIS CDS Technical Committee and the ICDL-Epirob 2016 conference.</div><br class=""><div class="">Let me remind you that previous issues of the newsletter are all open-access and available at: <a href="http://icdl-epirob.org/cdsnl" class="">http://icdl-epirob.org/cdsnl</a></div><div class=""><br class="">I wish you a stimulating reading!</div><div class=""><br class="">Best regards,<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Pierre-Yves Oudeyer,<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Editor of the IEEE CIS Newsletter on Cognitive and Developmental Systems</div><div class="">Chair of the IEEE CIS AMD Technical Committee on Cognitive and Developmental Systems<br class="">Research director, Inria</div><div class="">Head of Flower project-team</div><div class="">Inria and Ensta ParisTech, France</div><div class=""><a href="http://goo.gl/1ftsM" class="">http://www.pyoudeyer.com</a></div></div><div class=""><a href="https://flowers.inria.fr/" class="">https://flowers.inria.fr</a></div></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.poppy-project.org/" class="">http://www.poppy-project.org</a></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">
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