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Catching ourselves in the act : situated activity, interactive emergence, evolution, and human thought / Horst Hendriks-Jansen.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Complex adaptive systemsPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, �1996.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 367 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585003335
  • 9780585003337
  • 9780262082464
  • 0262082462
  • 9780262275262
  • 0262275260
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Catching ourselves in the act.DDC classification:
  • 150 20
LOC classification:
  • BF619.5 .H46 1996eb
NLM classification:
  • 1996 J-540
  • BF 619.5
Online resources:
Contents:
Situated robotics, natural selection, and cultural scaffolding: The ingredients of a historical explanation -- Computers, models and theories -- Internal representation and natural selection: Epistemological and ontological strains in the cignitive approach -- Connectionism: Its promise and limitations as currently conceived -- Scientific explanation of behavior: The approach through formal task definition -- Scientific explanation of behavior: The logic of evolution and learning -- Toward a working definition of activity: Recent developments in AI that try to come to terms with the S-Domain -- An examination of alternative conceptual frameworks for autonomous agent research -- Models of behavior selection -- A new type of model -- Ethology: The basic concepts and " Orienting Attitudes " -- Critiques and modifications of the basic concepts of Ethology -- Ethological explanations of the integration of activity patterns -- The explanatory relation of the integration of activity patterns -- The explanatory relation between ethology and autonomous agent research -- Species-Typical activity patterns of human infants -- Language and the emergence of intentionality -- Situated activity, cultural scaffolding, and acts -- An explanatory framework that reconciles biology and culture -- Index.
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"A Bradford book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-352) and index.

Situated robotics, natural selection, and cultural scaffolding: The ingredients of a historical explanation -- Computers, models and theories -- Internal representation and natural selection: Epistemological and ontological strains in the cignitive approach -- Connectionism: Its promise and limitations as currently conceived -- Scientific explanation of behavior: The approach through formal task definition -- Scientific explanation of behavior: The logic of evolution and learning -- Toward a working definition of activity: Recent developments in AI that try to come to terms with the S-Domain -- An examination of alternative conceptual frameworks for autonomous agent research -- Models of behavior selection -- A new type of model -- Ethology: The basic concepts and " Orienting Attitudes " -- Critiques and modifications of the basic concepts of Ethology -- Ethological explanations of the integration of activity patterns -- The explanatory relation of the integration of activity patterns -- The explanatory relation between ethology and autonomous agent research -- Species-Typical activity patterns of human infants -- Language and the emergence of intentionality -- Situated activity, cultural scaffolding, and acts -- An explanatory framework that reconciles biology and culture -- Index.

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