Connectionists: developmental robotics

[james bower]

For those who haven’t, you might find the book:

Vehicles

http://www.amazon.com/Vehicles-Experiments-Synthetic-Psychology-Bradford-ebook/dp/B002Z13PRM/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1392134985&sr=1-1&keywords=vehicles

By Valentino Braitenberg:  how deceptive ones perception of ‘cognition’ can be with respect to the actual underlying neural mechanisms.

Jim



On Feb 11, 2014, at 9:14 AM, Jeffrey Mark Siskind <qobi at purdue.edu> wrote:

>   Has anyone, for example, tried to build a robot that starts with the
>   cognitive capacities of a two-year-old (rather than a newborn), and goes
>   from there?
> 
> yes
> 
>   Or taken seriously the nativist arguments of Chomsky, Pinker, and Spelke
>   and tried to build a robot that is innately endowed with concepts like
>   “person”, “object”, “set”, and “place”?
> 
> I'd like to innately endow my robots with these concepts. Can you point me to
> a URL where I can download the code? Python, MATLAB, and Haskell preferred.
> 
>    Jeff (http://engineering.purdue.edu/~qobi)
> 

 

 

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