Questions tagged [embodied-cognition]

For questions related to the embodied cognition, which is the theory that many features of cognition, whether human or otherwise, are shaped by aspects of the entire body of the organism.

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What kind of body (if any) does intelligence require?

In the mid 1980s, Rodney Brooks famously created the foundations of "the new AI". The central claim was that the symbolist approach of 'Good Old Fashioned AI' (GOFAI) had failed by attempting to 'cream cognition off the top', and that embodied…
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Why would neural networks be a particularly good framework for "embodied AI"?

There is this claim around that the brain's cognitive capabilities are tightly linked to the way it processes sensorimotor information and that, in this or a similar sense, our intelligence is "embodied". Lets assume, for the sake of argument, that…
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Are there emergent models of time in robots?

I am interested in the emergence of properties in agents, and, more generally in robotics. I was wondering if there is work on the emergence of time-related concepts, on the low-level representation of notions like before and after. I know, for…
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Can a brain be intelligent without a body?

The dialog context Turing proposed at the end of the description of his famous test, "Will the interrogator decide wrongly as often when the game is played like this as he does when the game is played between a man and a woman? These questions…