TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pfeifer,Rolf
AU  - Scheier,Christian
TI  - Understanding intelligence
SN  - 0262161818 :
AV  - Q335 .P46 1999
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Artificial intelligence
KW  - Cognitive science
KW  - Expert systems (Computer science)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [659]-675) and indexes
N2  - By the mid-1980s researchers from artificial intelligence, computer science, brain and cognitive science, and psychology realized that the idea of computers as intelligent machines was inappropriate. The brain does not run "programs"; it does something entirely different. But what? Evolutionary theory says that the brain has evolved not to do mathematical proofs but to control our behavior, to ensure our survival. Researchers now agree that intelligence always manifests itself in behavior -- thus it is behavior that we must understand. An exciting new field has grown around the study of behavior-based intelligence, also known as embodied cognitive science, "new AI, " and "behavior-based AI."; This book provides a systematic introduction to this new way of thinking. After discussing concepts and approaches such as subsumption architecture, Braitenberg vehicles, evolutionary robotics, artificial life, self-organization, and learning, the authors derive a set of principles and a coherent framework for the study of naturally and artificially intelligent systems, or autonomous agents. This framework is based on a synthetic methodology whose goal is understanding by designing and building
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