ENACTION, EMBODIMENT, EVOLUTIONARY ROBOTICS

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxi

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2. Introduction

   • Marieke Rohde

   Pages 1-7

3. Enactive Cognitive Science

   • Marieke Rohde

   Pages 9-27

4. Methods and Methodology

   • Marieke Rohde

   Pages 29-65

5. Linear Synergies as a Principle in Motor Control

   • Marieke Rohde

   Pages 67-83

6. An Exploration of Value Systems Architectures

   • Marieke Rohde

   Pages 85-108

7. Perceptual Crossing in One Dimension

   • Marieke Rohde

   Pages 109-121

8. Perceptual Crossing in Two Dimensions

   • Marieke Rohde

   Pages 123-141

9. The Embodiment of Time

   • Marieke Rohde

   Pages 143-173

10. An Experiment on Adaptation to Tactile Delays

    • Marieke Rohde

    Pages 175-185

11. Simulating the Experiment on Tactile Delays

    • Marieke Rohde

    Pages 187-205

12. Perceived Simultaneity and Sensorimotor Latencies

    • Marieke Rohde

    Pages 207-215

13. Outlook

    • Marieke Rohde

    Pages 217-227

14. Back Matter

    Pages 229-342

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This is an unusual book. It launches a new style of research into the nature of the mind, a style that pro?ciently uncovers, explores and exploits the synergies between complex systems thinking, sophisticated theoretical critique, synthetic modeling technologies and experimental work. Rather than adopting a grandiose programmatic approach, Marieke Rohde presents us with a pragmatic conjunction of elements, each of them strongly feeding off the others and making it impossible to shelf her work strictly under any one rubric such as psychology, robotics, arti?cial intelligence or philosophy of mind. Perhaps the least unjust choice is to call this a work of new cognitive science. It is yesterday’s news to remark on how our conceptual framework for understanding c- plex systems is changing. There is a recognized need to supplement the scienti?c categories of mechanistic, XIX century thought for new ways of thinking about non-linear forms of interaction and inter-relation between events and processes at multiple scales. Since the times of cybernetics and in parallel to the development of the computer as a scienti?c tool, we have witnessed several proposals for “revolutionary” ways of dealing with complexity: catastrophe theory, general systems theory, chaos, self-organized criticality, complex n- works, etc. Despite not always ful?lling their stated potential, these ideas have helped us increase our capability to understand complex systems and have in general left us with new concepts, new tools and new ways of formulating questions. This conceptual change, however, has not been homogeneous.

• Embodied Cognition
• artificial intelligence
• cognition
• control
• evolution
• evolutionary robotics
• modeling
• perception
• robot
• robotics
• simulation

• Rohde Multisensory Perception and Action Group, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany

  Marieke Rohde

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