How the Body Shapes the Way We Think: A New View of Intelligence (A Bradford Book)

Name: How the Body Shapes the Way We Think: A New View of Intelligence (A Bradford Book)
Brand: Bradford Books
SKU: 9780262162395-G
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By Josh Bongard

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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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Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 394
Release Date:: 2006-11-01
Publication Date:: 2007
Publisher:: Bradford Books
Languages:: Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:: 0262162393
ISBN13:: 9780262162395
Weight:: 702 g

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