Being There : Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again

Preface: Deep Thought Meets Fluent Action xi(4) Acknowledgments xv(2) Groundings xvii Introduction: A Car with a Cockroach Brain 1(8) I Outing the Mind 9(76) 1 Autonomous Agents: Walking on the Moon 11(24) 1.1 Under the Volcano 11(1) 1.2 The Robots' Parade 12(9) 1.3 Minds without Models 21(2) 1.4 Niche Work 23(2) 1.5 A Feel for Detail? 25(6) 1.6 The Refined Robot 31(4) 2 The Situated Infant 35(18) 2.1 I, Robot 35(1) 2.2 Action Loops 36(3) 2.3 Development without Blueprints 39(3) 2.4 Soft Assembly and Decentralized Solutions 42(3) 2.5 Scaffolded Minds 45(2) 2.6 Mind as Mirror vs. Mind as Controller 47(6) 3 Mind and World: The Plastic Frontier 53(18) 3.1 The Leaky Mind 53(1) 3.2 Neural Networks: An Unfinished Revolution 53(6) 3.3 Leaning on the Environment 59(4) 3.4 Planning and Problem Solving 63(4) 3.5 After the Filing Cabinet 67(4) 4 Collective Wisdom, Slime-Mold-Style 71(12) 4.1 Slime Time 71(2) 4.2 Two Forms of Emergence 73(3) 4.3 Sea and Anchor Detail 76(1) 4.4 The Roots of Harmony 77(3) 4.5 Modeling the Opportunistic Mind 80(3) Intermission: A Capsule History 83(2) II Explaining the Extended Mind 85(92) 5 Evolving Robots 87(16) 5.1 The Slippery Strategems of the Embodied, Embedded Mind 87(1) 5.2 An Evolutionary Backdrop 88(1) 5.3 Genetic Algorithms as Exploratory Tools 89(1) 5.4 Evolving Embodied Intelligence 90(4) 5.5 SIM Wars (Get Real!) 94(3) 5.6 Understanding Evolved, Embodied, Embedded Agents 97(6) 6 Emergence and Explanation 103(26) 6.1 Different Strokes? 103(1) 6.2 From Parts to Wholes 103(10) 6.3 Dynamical Systems and Emergent Explanation 113(6) 6.4 Of Mathematicians and Engineers 119(4) 6.5 Decisions, Decisions 123(4) 6.6 The Brain Bites Back 127(2) 7 The Neuroscientific Image 129(14) 7.1 Brains: Why Bother? 129(1) 7.2 The Monkey's Fingers 130(3) 7.3 Primate Vision: From Feature Detection to Tuned Filters 133(3) 7.4 Neural Control Hypotheses 136(5) 7.5 Refining Representation 141(2) 8 Being, Computing, Representing 143(34) 8.1 Ninety Percent of (Artificial) Life? 143(1) 8.2 What Is This Thing Called Representation? 143(6) 8.3 Action-Oriented Representation 149(4) 8.4 Programs, Forces, and Partial Programs 153(7) 8.5 Beating Time 160(3) 8.6 Continuous Reciprocal Causation 163(3) 8.7 Representation-Hungry Problems 166(4) 8.8 Roots 170(4) 8.9 Minimal Representationalism 174(3) III Further! 177(46) 9 Minds and Markets 179(14) 9.1 Wild Brains, Scaffolded Minds 179(1) 9.2 Lost in the Supermarket 180(4) 9.3 The Intelligent Office? 184(2) 9.4 Inside the Machine 186(4) 9.5 Designer Environments 190(3) 10 Language: The Ultimate Artifact 193(26) 10.1 Word Power 193(1) 10.2 Beyond Communication 194(6) 10.3 Trading Spaces 200(7) 10.4 Thoughts about Thoughts: The Mangrove Effect 207(4) 10.5 The Fit of Language to Brain 211(2) 10.6 Where Does the Mind Stop and the Rest of the World Begin? 213(6) 11 Minds, Brains, and Tuna (A Summary in Brine) 219(4) Epilogue 223(6) Notes 229(20) Bibliography 249(16) Index 265