Exploring Robotic Minds - Actions, Symbols, and Consciousness as Self-Organizing Dynamic Phenomena (Hardcover)

In Exploring Robotic Minds: Actions, Symbols, and Consciousness as Self-Organizing Dynamic Phenomena, Jun Tani sets out to answer an essential and tantalizing question: How do our minds work? By providing an overview of his "synthetic neurorobotics" project, Tani reveals how symbols and concepts that represent the world can emerge in a neurodynamic structure-iterative interactions between the top-down subjective view, which proactively acts on the world, and the bottom-up recognition of the resultant perceptual reality. He argues that nontrivial problems of consciousness and free will could be addressed through structural understanding of such iterative, conflicting interactions between the top-down and the bottom-up pathways. A wide range of readers will enjoy this wonderful journey of the mind and will follow the author on interdisciplinary discussions that span neuroscience, dynamical systems theories, robotics, and phenomenology. The book also includes many figures, as well as a link to videos of Tani's exciting robotic experiments.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Oxford Series on Cognitive Models and Architectures
Release date:	December 2016
Authors:	Jun Tani (Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering)
Dimensions:	243 x 165 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	328
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-028106-9
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Social, group or collective psychology Books > Social sciences > Psychology > The self, ego, identity, personality Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Philosophy & theory of psychology > Cognitive theory Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Cognition & cognitive psychology > Learning
LSN:	0-19-028106-5
Barcode:	9780190281069

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