From Bricks to Brains: The Embodied Cognitive Science of LEGO Robots

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Athabasca University Press, 2010 - Computers - 332 pages

From Bricks to Brains introduces embodied cognitive science and illustrates its foundational ideas through the construction and observation of LEGO Mindstorms robots. It places a renewed emphasis on sensing and acting, the importance of embodiment, the exploration of distributed notions of control, and the development of theories by synthesizing simple systems and exploring their behaviour. Numerous examples are used to illustrate a key theme: the importance of an agent's environment. Even simple agents, such as LEGO robots, are capable of exhibiting complex behaviour when they can sense and affect the world around them.

 

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chapter 3
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chapter 4
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chapter 5
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chapter 6
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chapter 7
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chapter 8
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chapter 9
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