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From Bricks to Brains: The Embodied Cognitive Science of Lego Robots
By Michael Dawson, Brian Dupuis and Michael Wilson
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From Bricks to Brains introduces embodied cognitive science, and illustrates its foundational ideas through the construction and observation of LEGO Mindstorms robots. Discussing the characteristics that distinguish embodied cognitive science from classical cognitive science, From Bricks to Brains places a renewed emphasis on sensing and acting, the importance of embodiment, the exploration of distributed notions of control, and the development of theories by synthesizing simple systems and exploring their behaviour. Numerous examples are used to illustrate a key theme: the importance of an agent’s environment. Even simple agents, such as LEGO robots, are capable of exhibiting complex behaviour when they can sense and affect the world around them.
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Michael Dawson
Michael Dawson is Professor of History at St. Thomas University, where he teaches courses on Canadian History, the global history of sport and tourism, and the comparative history of national identity and popular culture in Canada, New Zealand, and Australia. In 2014 he was elected to the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists.
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Clouded by a lot of embedded cognition nonsense; author(s) have no awareness or even a sense of irony over proposing outdated behaviorist theory as a new, modern post-cognitivist theory. As a result, I can't use it in my classes.
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