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Marks-Tarlow, Terry

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“…The rationale of this paper is that the understanding of its environment (including other agents) by an agent requires its self-awareness, which actually is itself emerging as a result of this understanding and the distinction that the agent is capable to make between its own mind-body and its environment. This constitutes a dynamical system in which some authors have proposed that the awareness of self through stability and distinctiveness can be built (Marks-Tarlow, 1999;Shoda et al, 2002). We claim moreover that on the road toward a better understanding of the integration mechanisms underlying awareness, the successes and failures of robotics investigations can be useful in identifying what is not awareness, for instance when exemplifying some robotic zombies which can solve without awareness tasks that are thought to involve awareness (Oizumi et al, 2014).…”

Section: Context and Related Workmentioning

confidence: 84%

Toward Self-Aware Robots

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Despite major progress in Robotics and AI, robots are still basically "zombies" repeatedly achieving actions and tasks without understanding what they are doing. Deep-Learning AI programs classify tremendous amounts of data without grasping the meaning of their inputs or outputs. We still lack a genuine theory of the underlying principles and methods that would enable robots to understand their environment, to be cognizant of what they do, to take appropriate and timely initiatives, to learn from their own experience and to show that they know that they have learned and how. The rationale of this paper is that the understanding of its environment by an agent (the agent itself and its effects on the environment included) requires its self-awareness, which actually is itself emerging as a result of this understanding and the distinction that the agent is capable to make between its own mind-body and its environment. The paper develops along five issues: agent perception and interaction with the environment; learning actions; agent interaction with other agents-specifically humans; decision-making; and the cognitive architecture integrating these capacities.

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Section: Context and Related Workmentioning

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“…In preparing for this review, we found numerous areas of overlap that we could potentially cover, including creativity and meaning (cf. Allen & Varga, 2007;Guastello & Fleener, 2011), motivational flow (Ceja & Navarro, 2009;Guastello, Johnson, & Rieke, 1999;Navarro, Arrieta, & Ballen, 2007), the selfsystem (Delignières, Fortes, & Ninot, 2004;Marks-Tarlow, 1999;Wong, Vallacher, & Nowak, 2014), intention (Dumas, de Guzman, Tognoli, & Kelso, 2014;Freeman, 2007;Haken & Tschacher, 2011;Hollis, Kloos, & Van Orden, 2009;Kay & Freeman, 1998;Kelso, 2012;Walther, Ramseyer, Horn, Strik, & Tschacher, 2013), and psychotherapy processes (Anders, Heinzle, Weiskopf, Ethofer, & Haynes, 2011;Hayes & Yasinski, 2015;Heinzel, Tominschek, & Schiepek, 2014;Peluso, Liebovitch, Gottman, Norman, & Su, 2011;Pincus, 2009Pincus, , 2015Pincus, , 2016Ramseyer & Tschacher, 2011;Schiepek, Eckert, Aas, Wallot, & Wallot, 2015). Interested readers are encouraged to begin with these example citations as entry points into the various areas of humanism in which NDS have been applied.…”

Section: Nonlinear Dynamical Systems and Humanismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Nonlinear Dynamical Systems and Humanistic Psychology

Pincus

Kiefer

Beyer

2017

Journal of Humanistic Psychology

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The recent debunking by Brown, Sokal, & Friedman (2013) of some high profile results applying chaos theory to positive psychology (i.e., Fredrickson & Losada, 2005) creates the opportunity to shed light on the quality work that has been done by others in this area. Too many humanists may be unaware of the large volume of legitimate work that exists in the literature apart from Fredrickson & Losada's (2005) paper. Often,, such legitimate lines of research are ignored, not measuring topological processes). Next, it will highlight some ongoing work applying nonlinear science to humanistic psychology. In preparing for this review, we found numerous areas of overlap that we could potentially cover, including: creativity and meaning (cf.

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“…In mental ecology, Marks-Tarlow (2004) reconfigures the psychoanalytic model of the self as a dynamical system, while Busch (2007, 429) describes pathological infantile attractors as “ black holes in psychological space , sucking in everything in that comes near its orbit, remaining outside of awareness and thus unable to be modified by other structures.” Psychoanalysis can be understood as a coevolutionary system (Palombo, 1999) a “destabilization” of such attractors in psychic space, changing point, and periodic attractors to chaotic attractors. While most change is confined to the local level and absorbed by wider psychic defenses, as the system reaches self-organized criticality (Bak and Chen, 1991) the tiniest local shift can precipitate cascades of disorder through the entire system.…”

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Minding the Ecological Body: Neuropsychoanalysis and Ecopsychoanalysis

Dodds

2013

Front. Psychol.

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Neuropsychoanalysis explores experimentally and theoretically the philosophically ancient discussion of the relation of mind and body, and seems well placed to overcome the problem of a “mindless” neuroscience and a “brainless” psychology and psychotherapy, especially when combined with a greater awareness that the body itself, not only the brain, provides the material substrate for the emergent phenomenon we call mind. However, the mind-brain-body is itself situated within a complex ecological world, interacting with other mind-brain-bodies and the “non-human environment.” This occurs both synchronically and diachronically as the organism and its environment (living and non-living) interact in highly complex often non-linear ways. Psychoanalysis can do much to help unmask the anxieties, deficits, conflicts, phantasies, and defenses crucial in understanding the human dimension of the ecological crisis. Yet, psychoanalysis still largely remains not only a “psychology without biology,” which neuropsychoanalysis seeks to remedy, but also a “psychology without ecology.” Ecopsychoanalysis (Dodds, 2011b; Dodds and Jordan, 2012) is a new transdisciplinary approach drawing on a range of fields such as psychoanalysis, psychology, ecology, philosophy, science, complexity theory, esthetics, and the humanities. It attempts to play with what each approach has to offer in the sense of a heterogeneous assemblage of ideas and processes, mirroring the interlocking complexity, chaos, and turbulence of nature itself. By emphasizing the way the mind-brain-body studied by neuropsychoanalysis is embedded in wider social and ecological networks, ecopsychoanalysis can help open up the relevance of neuropsychoanalysis to wider fields of study, including those who are concerned with what Wilson (2003) called “the future of life.”

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