Real brains and artificial intelligence
The artificial intelligence debate: false starts, real foundations
Intelligence without representation
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence
Navigating with a rat brain: a neurobiologically-inspired model for robot spatial representation
Proceedings of the first international conference on simulation of adaptive behavior on From animals to animats
Information processing strategies and pathways in the primate retina and visual cortex
An introduction to neural and electronic networks
Evolving cellular automata to perform computations: mechanisms and impediments
Proceedings of the NATO advanced research workshop and EGS topical workshop on Chaotic advection, tracer dynamics and turbulent dispersion
Robot's Dilemma: The Frame Problem in Artificial Intelligence
Robot's Dilemma: The Frame Problem in Artificial Intelligence
Embodied intentional dynamics of bacterial behaviour
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 1
A dynamic perspective on an agent's mental states and interaction with its environment
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 2
Biologically Inspired Framework for Learning and Abstract Representation of Attention Control
Attention in Cognitive Systems. Theories and Systems from an Interdisciplinary Viewpoint
Online learning of task-driven object-based visual attention control
Image and Vision Computing
Simple games as dynamic, coupled systems: randomness and other emergent properties
Cognitive Systems Research
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The brain fascinates because it is the biological organ of mindfulness itself. It is the inner engine that drives intelligent behavior. Such a depiction provides a worthy antidote to the once-popular vision of the mind as somehow lying outside the natural order. However, it is a vision with a price. For it has concentrated much theoretical attention on an uncomfortably restricted space; the space of the inner neural machine, divorced from the wider world which then enters the story only via the hygienic gateways of perception and action. Recent work in neuroscience, robotics and psychology casts doubt on the effectiveness of such a shrunken perspective. Instead, it stresses the unexpected intimacy of brain, body and world and invites us to attend to the structure and dynamics of extended adaptive systems - ones involving a much wider variety of factors and forces. Whilst it needs to be handled with some caution, I believe there is much to be learnt from this broader vision. The mind itself, if such a vision is correct, is best understood as the activity of an essentially situated brain: a brain at home in its proper bodily, cultural and environmental niche.