Environments of Intelligence : From Natural Information to Artificial Interaction.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Milton :
Taylor & Francis Group,
2017.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | History and Philosophy of Technoscience Series
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Preliminaries: ants and robots, parlour games and steam drills
- Background
- Outline
- Notes
- Part I Informational environments
- 2 Resurrecting Dretskean information
- Information, behaviour and probability
- The content of natural information, and some discontent
- Alternative views of information
- Natural information and the roots of intentionality
- Notes
- 3 Varieties of perception
- Perception as information processing: the computational view
- Information specifies affordances: the ecological view
- Perceptual illusions vs. misperception: the empirical strategy
- Notes
- 4 The domains of natural information
- Natural information and reference classes
- Informational domains
- Resurrection at last
- Notes
- 5 Making an environment
- History, ecology, environment
- Adapting ecological niches
- Construction and constitution
- Notes
- 6 What is an informational environment?
- Environmental information and the use of cognition
- What informational environments are
- How informational environments change
- Note
- Part II Environments of intelligence
- 7 The extension of the extended mind
- The extension of functional histories
- The constitution of cognitive extensions
- Constitutional matters
- The art of coupling, basic and advanced
- Notes
- 8 The nature of cognitive artefacts
- Being guided by pictures
- Cognitive artefacts and informational environments
- Convergence and isomorphism
- Notes
- 9 The intelligence of environments
- Evolutionary and cognitive robotics
- Embodied conversational agents and social robotics
- Second Life
- Mixed Reality Games
- Augmented Reality
- Naturalising the artificial
- Notes
- 10 Afterthoughts on conceptual analysis and human nature
- A domain for conceptual analysis.
- A naturalist's view of human nature and machines
- Bibliography
- Author Index
- Subject Index.