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Experiments in synthetic psychology a bradford book kindle edition by braitenberg, valentino. In a section of extensive biological notes, braitenberg locates many elements of his fantasy in current brain research. Gaslight simulates a process called stochastic, selfpropagating star formation sspsf. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. The book then progresses and you end up with some amazing concepts. The small and cheerful book at hand, by a wellknown researcher on the brain from tubingen, has exploited the virtues of the style with unprecedented consistency, originality and aptness. In fact, if you take the proper amount of time to ponder each idea it might even take as long as a 400page book to get through. He was former director at the max planck institute for biological cybernetics in tubingen, germany. Braitenberg vehicles realized as actual devices seem like good way to promote discussion about these more philosophical topics, especially in a college classroom. Braitenberg starts with very simple machines or vehicles.
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Valentino braitenberg was a director of the max planck institute of biological cybernetics and honorary professor of information science at the. His thought experiments are not analytic efforts to extract what principles lie behind an imagined observation but are instead synthetic constructions. Valentino braitenberg s famous text vehicles experiments in synthetic psychology, 1, uses a series of elegant thought experiments, involving simple imaginary vehicles equipped. Vehicles simulator environment by jon klein gazebo. There are 14 vehicles in all a series of hypothetical, selfoperating mobile machines that exhibit increasingly sophisticated behavior similar to that in the real biological or neuroscientific world. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading vehicles. The vehicles represent the simplest form of behavior based artificial intelligence or embodied cognition, i. Each of the vehicles in the series incorporates the essential features of all the earlier models and along the way they come to embody aggression, love, logic, manifestations of. Braitenberg vehicles these creatures were designed by david hogg, fred martin, and mitchel resnick of the mit media laboratory.
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Experiments in synthetic psychology, mit press, 1984. Experiments in synthetic psychology a bradford book new ed by braitenberg isbn. The italian neurophysiologist valentino braitenberg wrote a book of thought experiments in which the reader is invited to mentally build progressively more complex machines, starting from the most elementary ones. An effort to integrate knowledge from psychology, neurophysiology, engineering, computer science, philosophy, lingustics in the study of mind. The mac os x gift pack includes a small suite of tools that were written to experiment with some of the feeds. The thought experiments show the type of complex lifelike behaviour that can be produced by connecting sensors to actuators with very simple, parallel neuron like computing. Experiments in synthetic psychology, valentino braitenberg describes a series of thought experiments in which vehicles with simple internal structure behave in unexpectedly complex ways. Experiments in synthetic psychology valentino braitenberg.
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