Exploring robotic minds : actions, symbols, and consciousness as self-organizing dynamic phenomena / Jun Tani.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tani, Jun, 1958- author.

Series:

Oxford series on cognitive models and architectures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Artificial intelligence.

Robotics.

Cognitive neuroscience.

Physical Description:

xv, 310 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2017]

Contents:

Part I On the Mind

1 Where Do We Begin with Mind? 3

2 Cognitivism 9

2.1 Composition and Recursion in Symbol Systems 9

2.2 Some Cognitive Models 13

2.3 The Symbol Grounding Problem 16

2.4 Context 18

2.5 Summary 19

3 Phenomenology 21

3.1 Direct Experience 22

3.2 The Subjective Mind and Objective World 23

3.3 Time Perception: How Can the Flow of Subjective Experiences Be Objectified? 26

3.4 Being-in-the-World 29

3.5 Embodiment of Mind 32

3.6 Stream of Consciousness and Free Will 37

3.7 Summary 41

4 Introducing the Brain and Brain Science 43

4.1 Hierarchical Brain Mechanisms for Visual Recognition and Action Generation 44

4.2 A New Understanding of Action Generation and Recognition in the Brain 55

4.3 How Can Intention Arise Spontaneously and Become an Object of Conscious Awareness? 69

4.4 Deciding Among Conflicting Evidence 75

4.5 Summary 77

5 Dynamical Systems Approach for Modeling Embodied Cognition 81

5.1 Dynamical Systems 83

5.2 Gibsonian and Neo-Gibsonian Approaches 93

5.3 Behavior-Based Robotics 103

5.4 Modeling the Brain at Different Levels 109

5.5 Neural Network Models 112

5.6 Neurorobotics from the Dynamical Systems Perspective 125

5.7 Summary 136

Part II Emergent Minds: Findings from Robotics Experiments

6 New Proposals 141

6.1 Robots with Subjective Views 141

6.2 Engineering Subjective Views into Neurodynamic Models 143

6.3 The Subjective Mind and the Objective World as an Inseparable Entity 148

7 Predictive Learning About the World from Actional Consequences 151

7.1 Development of Compositionality: The Symbol Grounding Problem 152

7.2 Predictive Dynamics and Self-Consciousness 161

7.3 Summary 172

8 Mirroring Action Generation and Recognition with Articulating Sensory-Motor Flow 175

8.1 A Mirror Neuron Model: RNNPB 177

8.2 Embedding Multiple Behaviors in Distributed Representation 180

8.3 Imitating Others by Reading Their Mental States 182

8.4 Binding Language and Action 190

8.5 Summary 196

9 Development of Functional Hierarchy for Action 199

9.1 Self-Organization of Functional Hierarchy in Multiple Timescales 203

9.2 Robotics Experiments on Developmental Training of Complex Actions 209

9.3 Summary 216

10 Free Will for Action and Conscious Awareness 219

10.1 A Dynamic Account of Spontaneous Behaviors 219

10.2 Free Will, Consciousness, and Postdiction 230

10.3 Summary 239

11 Conclusions 243

11.1 Compositionality in the Cognitive Mind 243

11.2 Phenomenology 247

11.3 Objective Science and Subjective Experience 251

11.4 Future Directions 255

11.5 Summary 262.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Tani, Jun, 1958- author. Exploring robotic minds.

ISBN:

9780190281069

0190281065

OCLC:

950202523