How could the body influence our thinking when it seems obvious that the brain controls the body? In How the Body Shapes the Way We Think, Rolf Pfeifer and Josh Bongard demonstrate that thought is not independent of the body but is tightly constrained, and at the same time enabled, by it. They argue that the kinds of thoughts we are capable of have their foundation in our embodiment--in our morphology and the material properties of our bodies.This crucial notion of embodiment underlies fundamental changes in the field of artificial intelligence over the past two decades, and Pfeifer and Bongard use the basic methodology of artificial intelligence--"understanding by building"--to describe their insights. If we understand how to design and build intelligent systems, they reason, we will better understand intelligence in general. In accessible, nontechnical language, and using many examples, they introduce the basic concepts by building on recent developments in robotics, biology, neuroscience, and psychology to outline a possible theory of intelligence. They illustrate applications of such a theory in ubiquitous computing, business and management, and the psychology of human memory. Embodied intelligence, as described by Pfeifer and Bongard, has important implications for our understanding of both natural and artificial intelligence.
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"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."
-- Nature, 24.5.07 (Hiroaki Kitano)
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."
-- Nature, 24.5.07 (Hiroaki Kitano)
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Rolf Pfeifer is Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in the Department of Informatics at the University of Zurich. He is the author of Understanding Intelligence (MIT Press, 1999).
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This book is a must for who wants to understand the Embodiment principles. The content is clear and humble in comparison with the challenge of giving such information to a broad audience. Please take the time to read it through!
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Does Intelligence Require A Body?
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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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