Frontiers in neurorobotics
2022
Gualtiero Piccinini
61 citations
Situated approaches to cognition maintain that cognition is embodied, embedded, enactive, and affective (and extended, but that is not relevant here). Situated approaches are often pitched as alternatives to computational and representational approaches, according to which cognition is computation over representations. I argue that, far from being opposites, situatedness and neural...
Frontiers in neurorobotics
2022
Robin L. Zebrowski, Eli B Mcgraw
6 citations
AI (broadly speaking) as a discipline and practice has tended to misconstrue social cognition by failing to properly appreciate the role and structure of the interaction itself. Participatory Sense-Making (PSM) offers a new level of description in understanding the potential role of (particularly robotics-based) AGI in a social interaction process. Where it falls short in distinguishing genuine...
Frontiers in neurorobotics
2022
Vadim Weinstein, Basak Sakcak, Steven M. Lavalle
5 citations
In this paper we start from the philosophical position in cognitive science known as enactivism. We formulate five basic enactivist tenets that we have carefully identified in the relevant literature as the main underlying principles of that philosophy. We then develop a mathematical framework to talk about cognitive systems (both artificial and natural) which complies with these enactivist...
Frontiers in neurorobotics
2022
Felix M G Woolford, Matthew D. Egbert
3 citations
We present a description of an ASM-network, a new habit-based robot controller model consisting of a network of adaptive sensorimotor maps. This model draws upon recent theoretical developments in enactive cognition concerning habit and agency at the sensorimotor level. It aims to provide a platform for experimental investigation into the relationship between networked organizations of habits...
Frontiers in neurorobotics
2021
Jonny Lee, Paco Calvo
Plants offer a source of bioinspiration for soft robotics. Nevertheless, a gap remains in designing robots based on the fundamental principles of plant intelligence, rooted in a non-centralized, modular architecture and a highly plastic phenotype. We contend that a holistic approach to plant bioinspiration-one that draws more fully on the features of plant intelligence and behavior-evidences...
Frontiers in neurorobotics
2020
Verena V Hafner, Pontus Loviken, Antonio Pico Villalpando et al.
1 citation
Traditionally investigated in philosophy, body ownership and agency-two main components of the minimal self-have recently gained attention from other disciplines, such as brain, cognitive and behavioral sciences, and even robotics and artificial intelligence. In robotics, intuitive human interaction in natural and dynamic environments becomes more and more important, and requires skills such as...