Building bodies and brains

Lund, Henrik Hautop

doi:10.1177/1059712314544177

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“…Many researchers have clarified that intelligence resides in the circular relationship between the brain of an individual organism, its body, and the environment (Beer, 1995;Chiel & Beer, 1997;Nolfi & Floreano, 2000;Nolfi, Ikegami, & Tani, 2008;Pfeifer & Scheier, 1999;Tani, 1996;Varela, Thompson, & Rosch, 1991). Also, an increasing number of research directions emphasize the embodied agent framework (Brooks & Stein, 1994;Husbands, 2009;Lund, 2014). In this regard, different cognitive theories also emphasize the dynamic and interactive role of the brain and the environment (Barandian, & Moreno, 2006;Clark, 1997;Clark, & Grush, 1999;Di Paolo, Barandiaran, Beaton & Buhrmann, 2013;Nolfi & Tani, 1999;van Duijn, Keijzer, & Franken, 2006;Vakarelov, 2011).…”

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Towards the Self-constructive Brain: emergence of adaptive behavior

Corbacho¹

2016

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Adaptive behavior is mainly the result of adaptive brains. We go a step beyond and claim that the brain does not only adapt to its surrounding reality but rather, it builds itself up to constructs its own reality. That is, rather than just trying to passively understand its environment, the brain is the architect of its own reality in an active process where its internal models of the external world frame how its new interactions with the environment are assimilated. These internal models represent relevant predictive patterns of interaction all over the different brain structures: perceptual, sensorimotor, motor, etc. The emergence of adaptive behavior arises from this self-constructive nature of the brain, based on the following principles of organization: self-experimental, self-growing, and self-repairing. Self-experimental, since to ensure survival, the self-constructive brain (SCB) is an active machine capable of performing experiments of its own interactions with the environment by mental simulation. Selfgrowing, since it dynamically and incrementally constructs internal structures in order to build a model of the world as it gathers statistics from its interactions with the environment. Self-repairing, since to survive the SCB must also be robust and capable of finding ways to repair parts of previously working structures and hence re-construct a previous relevant pattern of activity.

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Towards the Self-constructive Brain: emergence of adaptive behavior

Corbacho¹

2016

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“…As opposed to good old-fashioned artificial intelligence, which to a large degree imposed a division between the body (hardware) and the brain (AI software) for instance with symbol-processing systems and expert systems, embodied artificial intelligence states that there is an intimate relationship between the body and the brain. A modular system of physical modules with processing power allows us to be building bodies and brains [10]. As the physical structure (body) is being built, the processing structure (brain) is made with those same building actions.…”

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Playware ABC: Engineering Play for Everybody

Lund¹

2017

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This paper describes the Playware ABC concept, and how it allows anybody, anywhere, anytime to be building bodies and brains, which facilitates users to construct, combine and create. The Playware ABC concept focuses engineering and IT system development on creating solutions that are usable by all kinds of users and contexts. The result becomes solutions, often based on modular technologies that are highly flexible and adaptable to different contexts, users, and applications.

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Effect of Playful Physical Interactive Tiles on Cognition

Liu

Lund

2018

2018 International Conference on Information and Communication Technology Robotics (ICT-ROBOT)

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Building bodies and brains

Cited by 3 publications

References 15 publications

Towards the Self-constructive Brain: emergence of adaptive behavior

Towards the Self-constructive Brain: emergence of adaptive behavior

Playware ABC: Engineering Play for Everybody

Effect of Playful Physical Interactive Tiles on Cognition

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