Blended Cognition The Robotic Challenge
This edited volume is about how unprejudiced approaches to real human cognition can improve the design of AI. It covers many aspects of human cognition and across 12 chapters the reader can explore multiple approaches about the complexities of human cogni
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Jordi Vallverdú Vincent C. Müller Editors
Blended Cognition The Robotic Challenge
Springer Series in Cognitive and Neural Systems Volume 12
Series Editor Vassilis Cutsuridis, School of Computer Science, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/8572
Jordi Vallverdú • Vincent C. Müller Editors
Blended Cognition The Robotic Challenge
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Editors Jordi Vallverdú Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès) Catalonia, Spain
Vincent C. Müller American College of Thessaloniki Thessaloniki, Greece
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Preface
Introduction: Blended Cognition Two views on natural and artificial cognition seem to be locked in a contest today: the naturalistic, bottom-up and embodied/enactive/extended/morphological approach to cognitive systems vs. formal, top-down, and highly symbolic/statistical approaches. Facing these traditional battles, we suggest an ambitious hypothesis: these two views are not only biased, but are also theoretically overrated—there is a coherent middle way. Embodiment contains, in its own structure, a syntax that expresses specific methods of semantics; while pure symbolic systems are not able to generate metadiscourses. Eventually both views converge a
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