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Interaction and Experience in Enactive Intelligence and Humanoid Robotics
We overview how sensorimotor experience can be operationalized for interaction scenarios in which humanoid robots acquire skills and linguistic behaviours via enacting a “form-of-life”’ in interaction games (following Wittgenstein) with humans. The enactive paradigm is introduced which provides a powerful framework for the construction of complex adaptive systems, based on interaction, habit, and experience. Enactive cognitive architectures (following insights of Varela, Thompson and Rosch) that we have developed support social learning and robot ontogeny by harnessing information-theoretic methods and raw uninterpreted sensorimotor experience to scaffold the acquisition of behaviours. The success criterion here is validation by the robot engaging in ongoing human-robot interaction with naive participants who, over the course of iterated interactions, shape the robot’s behavioural and linguistic development. Engagement in such interaction exhibiting aspects of purposeful, habitual recurring structure evidences the developed capability of the humanoid to enact language and interaction games as a successful participant
Interactivist approach to representation in epigenetic agents
Interactivism is a vast and rather ambitious philosophical
and theoretical system originally developed by Mark
Bickhard, which covers plethora of aspects related to
mind and person. Within interactivism, an agent is
regarded as an action system: an autonomous, self-organizing,
self-maintaining entity, which can exercise
actions and sense their effects in the environment it
inhabits. In this paper, we will argue that it is especially
suited for treatment of the problem of representation in
epigenetic agents. More precisely, we will elaborate on
process-based ontology for representations, and will
sketch a way of discussing about architectures for
epigenetic agents in a general manner
From Biological to Synthetic Neurorobotics Approaches to Understanding the Structure Essential to Consciousness (Part 3)
This third paper locates the synthetic neurorobotics research reviewed in the second paper in terms of themes introduced in the first paper. It begins with biological non-reductionism as understood by Searle. It emphasizes the role of synthetic neurorobotics studies in accessing the dynamic structure essential to consciousness with a focus on system criticality and self, develops a distinction between simulated and formal consciousness based on this emphasis, reviews Tani and colleagues' work in light of this distinction, and ends by forecasting the increasing importance of synthetic neurorobotics studies for cognitive science and philosophy of mind going forward, finally in regards to most- and myth-consciousness
Proceedings of the 1st Standardized Knowledge Representation and Ontologies for Robotics and Automation Workshop
Welcome to IEEE-ORA (Ontologies for Robotics and Automation) IROS workshop. This
is the 1st edition of the workshop on! Standardized Knowledge Representation and
Ontologies for Robotics and Automation. The IEEE-ORA 2014 workshop was held on
the 18th September, 2014 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
In!the IEEE-ORA IROS workshop, 10 contributions were presented from 7 countries in
North and South America, Asia and Europe. The presentations took place in the
afternoon, from 1:30 PM to 5:00 PM. The first session was dedicated to “Standards for
Knowledge Representation in Robotics”, where presentations were made from the
IEEE working group standards for robotics and automation, and also from the ISO TC
184/SC2/WH7. The second session was dedicated to “Core and Application
Ontologies”, where presentations were made for core robotics ontologies, and also for
industrial and robot assisted surgery ontologies. Three posters were presented in
emergent applications of ontologies in robotics.
We would like to express our thanks to all participants. First of all to the authors,
whose quality work is the essence of this workshop. Next, to all the members of the
international program committee, who helped us with their expertise and valuable
time. We would also like to deeply thank the IEEE-IROS 2014 organizers for hosting
this workshop.
Our deep gratitude goes to the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, that sponsors!
the IEEE-ORA group activities, and also to the scientific organizations that kindly
agreed to sponsor all the workshop authors work
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