Overview
- First book to describe how to calculate the contribution of the body to an observed behaviour from observations alone
- Discusses applications of the measures to soft robotics and biomechanics, and hence, demonstrates that the developed theory has practical applications
- Gives a structured overview of how physical processes in the body and the body’s interaction with the environment reduce the computational load for the brain
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About this book
Intelligence results from the interaction of the brain, body and environment. The question addressed in this book is, can we measure the contribution of the body and its' interaction with the environment?
To answer this, we first present a comprehensive overview of the various ways in which a body reduces the amount of computation that the brain has to perform to solve a task. This chapter will broaden your understanding of how important inconspicuously appearing physical processes and physical properties of the body are with respect to our cognitive abilities. This form of contribution to intelligence is called Morphological Intelligence.
The main contribution of this book to the field is a detailed discussion of how Morphological Intelligence can be measured from observations alone. The required mathematical framework is provided so that readers unfamiliar with information theory will be able to understand and apply the measures. Case studies from biomechanics and soft robotics illustrate how the presented quantifications can, for example, be used to measure the contribution of muscle physics to jumping and optimise the shape of a soft robotic hand.
To summarise, this monograph presents various examples of how the physical properties of the body and the body’s interaction with the environment contribute to intelligence. Furthermore, it treats theoretical and practical aspects of Morphological Intelligence and demonstrates the value in two case studies.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Morphological Intelligence
Book Subtitle: Measuring the Body’s Contribution to Intelligence
Authors: Keyan Ghazi-Zahedi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20621-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-20620-8Published: 19 September 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-20623-9Published: 19 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-20621-5Published: 04 September 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 180
Number of Illustrations: 30 b/w illustrations, 40 illustrations in colour
Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Biology/Bioinformatics, Biomechanics, Coding and Information Theory