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
Evolving dynamical neural networks for adaptive behavior
Adaptive Behavior
Explorations in evolutionary robotics
Adaptive Behavior
Robotic experiments in cricket phonotaxis
SAB94 Proceedings of the third international conference on Simulation of adaptive behavior : from animals to animats 3: from animals to animats 3
Seeing the light: artificial evolution, real vision
SAB94 Proceedings of the third international conference on Simulation of adaptive behavior : from animals to animats 3: from animals to animats 3
A dynamical systems perspective on agent-environment interaction
Artificial Intelligence - Special volume on computational research on interaction and agency, part 1
Computational and dynamical languages for autonomous agents
Mind as motion
Bringing representation back to life
Proceedings of the fifth international conference on simulation of adaptive behavior on From animals to animats 5
Being There: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again
Being There: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again
Evolutionary Robotics: The Biology,Intelligence,and Technology
Evolutionary Robotics: The Biology,Intelligence,and Technology
Hardware Evolution: Automatic Design of Electronic Circuits in Reconfigurable Hardware by Artificial Evolution
Proceedings of the First European Workshop on Evolutionary Robotics
Proceedings of the First European Workshop on Evolutionary Robotics
Evolving Electronic Robot Controller that Exploit Hardware Resources
Proceedings of the Third European Conference on Advances in Artificial Life
Explaining the Evolved: Homunculi, Modules, and Internal Representation
Proceedings of the First European Workshop on Evolutionary Robotics
Evolution of Spiking Neural Controllers for Autonomous Vision-Based Robots
ER '01 Proceedings of the International Symposium on Evolutionary Robotics From Intelligent Robotics to Artificial Life
Natural-Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence
Natural-Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence
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Robotics as practiced within the artificial life community is no longer the bitter enemy of representational explanation in the way that it sometimes seemed to be in the heady, revolutionary days of the 1990s. This rapprochement is, however, fragile, because the field of evolutionary robotics continues to pose two important challenges to the idea that real-time intelligent action must or should be explained by appeal to inner representations. The first of these challenges, the threat from nontrivial causal spread, occurs when extra-neural factors account for the kind of adaptive richness and flexibility normally associated with representation-based control. The second, the threat from continuous reciprocal causation, occurs when the causal contributions made by the systemic components collectively responsible for behavior generation are massively context-sensitive and variable over time. I argue that while the threat from nontrivial causal spread can be resisted, the threat from continuous reciprocal causation provides a stern test for our representational intuitions.