Blended Cognition
The Robotic Challenge
Editors: Vallverdú, Jordi, Müller, Vincent C. (Eds.)
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This edited volume is about how unprejudiced approaches to real human cognition can improve the design of AI. It covers many aspects of human cognition and across 12 chapters the reader can explore multiple approaches about the complexities of human cognitive skills and reasoning, always guided by experts from different but complimentary academic fields.
A central concept is explained: blended cognition, the natural skill of human beings for combining constantly different heuristics during their several task-solving activities. Something that was sometimes observed like a problem as “bad reasoning”, is now the central key for the understanding of the richness, adaptability and creativity of human cognition. The topic of this book connects in a significant way with the disciplines of psychology, neurology, anthropology, philosophy, logics, engineering, logics, and AI. In a nutshell: understanding better humans for designing better machines.Any person with interests on natural and artificial reasoning should read this book as a primary source of inspiration and a way to achieve a critical thinking on these topics.
- Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Blended Cognition: The Robotic Challenge
Pages 3-21
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Manipulative Abduction, External Semiotic Anchors, and Blended Cognition
Pages 23-52
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Practical Reasoning in the Deliberations of an Intelligent Autonomous Agent
Pages 53-84
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Blended Automation: The Language-Game of Psychoanalytic Automatism and Cybernetic Automata
Pages 85-95
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Can Our Robots Rely on an Emotionally Charged Vision-for-Action? An Embodied Model for Neurorobotics
Pages 99-126
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Blended Cognition
- Book Subtitle
- The Robotic Challenge
- Editors
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- Jordi Vallverdú
- Vincent C. Müller
- Series Title
- Springer Series in Cognitive and Neural Systems
- Series Volume
- 12
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-03104-6
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-03104-6
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-03103-9
- Series ISSN
- 2363-9105
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- X, 304
- Number of Illustrations
- 30 b/w illustrations, 24 illustrations in colour
- Topics