From Bricks to Brains: The Embodied Cognitive Science of LEGO Robots (Au Press) (2010)

by Michael Dawson, Michael R. W. Dawson, Brian Dupuis, Michael Wilson

Other authors: Natalie Olsen (Designer)

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From Bricks to Brains introduces embodied cognitive science, and illustrates its foundational ideas through the construction and observation of LEGO Mindstorms robots.Discussing the characteristics that distinguish embodied cognitive science from classical cognitive science, From Bricks to Brains 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 age… (more)

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Clouded by a lot of embedded cognition nonsense; author(s) have no awareness or even a sense of irony over proposing outdated behaviorist theory as a new, modern post-cognitivist theory. As a result, I can't use it in my classes. (

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Dawson, Michael	—	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Dawson, Michael R. W.	—	main author	all editions	confirmed
Dupuis, Brian	—	main author	all editions	confirmed
Wilson, Michael	—	main author	all editions	confirmed
Olsen, Natalie	Designer	secondary author	all editions	confirmed

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Classical cognitive science adopts the representational theory of mind (Pylyshyn, 1984).

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From Bricks to Brains introduces embodied cognitive science, and illustrates its foundational ideas through the construction and observation of LEGO Mindstorms robots.Discussing the characteristics that distinguish embodied cognitive science from classical cognitive science, From Bricks to Brains 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 age

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