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Environments of Intelligence: From natural information to artificial interaction book cover

1st Edition

Environments of Intelligence From natural information to artificial interaction

By Hajo Greif Copyright 2017
230 Pages
by Routledge

230 Pages
by Routledge

230 Pages
by Routledge
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What is the role of the environment, and of the information it provides, in cognition? More specifically, may there be a role for certain artefacts to play in this context? These are questions that motivate "4E" theories of cognition (as being embodied, embedded, extended, enactive). In his take on that family of views, Hajo Greif first defends and refines a concept of information as... Read more
  1. Preliminaries: Ants and Robots, Parlour Games and Steam Drills

    2. Background

    Outline

    I Informational Environments

  2. Resurrecting Dretskean Information

    3. Information, Behaviour, and Probability

    The Content of Natural Information, and Some Discontent

    Alternative Information

    Natural Information and the Roots of Intentionality

    　

  3. Varieties of Perception

    4. Perception as Information Processing: The Computational View

    Information Specifies Affordances: The Ecological View

    Perceptual Illusions vs. Misperception: The Empirical Strategy

    　

  4. The Domains of Natural Information

    5. Natural Information and Reference Classes

    Informational Domains

    Resurrection at Last

    　

  5. Making an Environment

    6. History, Ecology, Environment

    Adapting Ecological Niches

    Construction and Constitution

    　

  6. What is an Informational Environment?

    7. Environmental Information and the Use of Cognition

    What Informational Environments Are

    How Informational Environments Change

     

    II Environments of Intelligence

  7. The Extension of the Extended Mind

    8. The Extension of Functional Histories

    The Constitution of Cognitive Extensions

    Constitutional Matters

    The Art of Coupling, Basic and Advanced

    　

  8. The Nature of Cognitive Artefacts

    9. Being Guided by Pictures

    Cognitive Artefacts and Informational Environments

    Convergence and Isomorphism

    　

  9. The Intelligence of Environments

Evolutionary and Cognitive Robotics

Embodied Conversational Agents and Social Robotics

Second Life

Mixed Reality Games

Augmented Reality

Naturalising the Artificial

　

　

10 Afterthoughts on Conceptual Analysis and Human Nature

A Domain for Conceptual Analysis

A Naturalist’s View of Human Nature and Machines

BibliographyIndex

Biography

Hajo Greif teaches at the Munich Center for Technology in Society (MCTS), Technical University of Munich, Germany, and the Department of Philosophy, University of Klagenfurt, Austria. His research interests cover the philosophy – and some of the history and the social studies – of science and technology, as well as the philosophy of mind.

"An absorbing volume that integrates an extraordinarily wide area of work, with interesting observations and new twists right to the end."

Ruth Millikan, University of Connecticut, USA 

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