Jun Tani

Exploring Robotic Minds (eBook, PDF)

Actions, Symbols, and Consciousness as Self-Organizing Dynamic Phenomena

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190281076
• Artikelnr.: 48793444

Autorenporträt

Jun Tani is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST).

Inhaltsangabe

* Foreword by Frank E. Ritter
* Preface
* Part I On the Mind
* 1. Where do we begin with mind?
* 2. Cognitivism
* 2.1 Composition and recursion in symbol systems
* 2.2 Some cognitive models
* 2.3 The symbol grounding problem
* 2.4 Context
* 2.5 Summary
* 3. Phenomenology
* 3.1 Direct experience
* 3.2 The subjective mind and objective world
* 3.3 Time perception: How can the flow of subjective experiences be
objectified?
* 3.4 Being-in-the-world
* 3.5 Embodiment for mind
* 3.6 Stream of consciousness and freewill
* 3.7 Summary
* 4. Introducing the brain and brain science
* 4.1 Hierarchical brain mechanisms for visual recognition and action
generation
* 4.2 A new understanding of action generation and recognition in the
brain
* 4.3 How can intention arise spontaneously and be aware consciously?
* 4.4 Deciding between the conflicting evidence
* 4.5 Summary
* 5. Dynamical systems approach for embodied cognition
* 5.1 Dynamical systems
* 5.2 Gibsonian and Neo-Gibsonian approaches
* 5.3 Behavior-based robotics
* 5.4 Modeling the brain at different levels
* 5.5 Neural network models
* 5.6 Neurorobotics with the dynamical systems perspectives
* 5.7 Summary
* Part II Emergent minds: Findings from robotics experiments
* 6. New proposals
* 6.1 Robots with subjective views
* 6.2 Engineering subjective views into neurodynamic models
* 6.3 The subjective mind and the objective world as an inseparable
entity
* 7. Predictive learning about the world from actional consequences
* 7.1 Development of compositionality: The symbol grounding problem
* 7.2 Predictive dynamics and self-consciousness
* 7.3 Summary
* 8. Mirroring action generation and recognition with articulating
sensory-motor flow
* 8.1 A mirror neuron model: RNNPB
* 8.2 Embedding multiple behaviors in distributed representation
* 8.3 Imitating others by recognizing their mental states
* 8.4 Binding language and actions
* 8.5 Summary
* 9. Development of functional hierarchy for action
* 9.1 Self-organization of functional hierarchy in multiple timescales
* 9.2 Robotics experiments on developmental training of complex actions
* 9.3 Summary
* 10. Freewill for action
* 10.1 Dynamic account of spontaneous behaviors
* 10.2 Freewill, consciousness, and postdiction
* 10.3 Summary
* 11. Conclusions
* 11.1 Compositionality in cognitive mind
* 11.2 Phenomenology
* 11.3 Objective science and subjective experience
* 11.4 Future directions
* 11.5 Summary of the book
* Glossary for abbreviations
* References
* Index