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#embodiment
Introducing Artificial Intelligence (Henry Brighton and Howard Selina)
The retina catches the fly on its own
as Maturana and Varela went on to show, the fly-catching behaviour is solved by the retina itself, independent of the processes going on in the rest of the frog’s brain. This experiment illustrates how certain behaviours, such as foraging for food, are realized through a tight…
Dreyfus against disembodied intelligence
This argument formed the backbone of one of the foremost critiques of AI. The philosopher Hubert Dreyfus, in the 1970s, declared that AI was misguided in its assumption that disembodied intelligence was possible. On the perceived failure of classical AI, Dreyfus noted …
Embodiment as the first principle
The First Principle of Embodiment
Intelligence requires a body
The degree to which embodiment is significant remains a controversial issue. Rodney Brooks goes as far as to say, “Intelligence requires a body.” For example, the design of a robot body will determine the sensory phenomena it experiences.
The world is its own best model
Situatedness refers to an agent being located in a complex environment, rather than a highly abstracted micro-world. The complexities of real environments are taken to be fundamentally different from those of the abstracted “micro-worlds”. Indeed, being situated permits the…
Behaviors in parallel, with no central control
Behaviours are built on, to yield more complex behaviours. Unlike much of conventional robotics, which takes the sense-model-plan-act cycle as a starting point, Brooks’ robots contain pieces of machinery that are autonomous and operate in parallel. There is no central control…