- Hardcover: 480 pages
- Publisher: MIT Press (28 Nov 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0262162393
- ISBN-13: 978-0262162395
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 16.1 x 2.6 cm
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Nature, 24.5.07 (Hiroaki Kitano)
"The study of intelligence, once dominated by biologists, has for decades been a focus for computer scientists. ... There is increasing recognition in the artificial intelligence and robotics communities that the nature of the body significantly affects the mind, although it does not totally control it.
How the Body Shapes the Way We Think by Rolf Pfeifer and Josh Bongard provides an excellent perspective on how artificial-intelligence and robotics researchers have been tackling this issue. It is full of examples and thought-provoking discussions so that readers can easily follow some of the central debates on intelligence developed over decades. ... The book beautifully illustrates the development of ideas, why we need these ideas, and what the issues are."
How the Body Shapes the Way We Think by Rolf Pfeifer and Josh Bongard provides an excellent perspective on how artificial-intelligence and robotics researchers have been tackling this issue. It is full of examples and thought-provoking discussions so that readers can easily follow some of the central debates on intelligence developed over decades. ... The book beautifully illustrates the development of ideas, why we need these ideas, and what the issues are."
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"After shedding a harsh new light on the Cartesian flaws at the heart of much of mainstream cognitive science, Wheeler carefully and persuasively builds a case for an alternative Heideggerian approach, grounding his arguments in current empirical work in AI. Superbly written with great clarity and energy (not to mention scholarship), this is a very important book for all serious students of cognitive science and its constituent disciplines -- from AI to philosophy of mind."--Phil Husbands, Professor of Artificial Intelligence, University of Sussex
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Does Intelligence Require A Body?
22 Jun 2008
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On page 18 Pfeifer and Bongard claim that "intelligence always requires a body." They may be right but I do not find sufficiently convincing arguments in their book (How the body shapes the way we think).
Perhaps the demand for real time operation and the simultaneous need to control computational complexity result in the need for highly parallel inputs and outputs. These many input and output devices, however they might be configured, would then constitute a "body." (They could be distributed across space in a way the human body can not be. This would constitute a superiority for AIs.)
Perhaps the demand for real time operation and the simultaneous need to control computational complexity result in the need for highly parallel inputs and outputs. These many input and output devices, however they might be configured, would then constitute a "body." (They could be distributed across space in a way the human body can not be. This would constitute a superiority for AIs.)
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