Being There

Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again

By: Andy Clark

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Paperback | 23 January 1998

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Brain, body, and world are united in a complex dance of circular causation and extended computational activity. In Being There, Andy Clark weaves these several threads into a pleasing whole and goes on to address foundational questions concerning the new tools and techniques needed to make sense of the emerging sciences of the embodied mind. Clark brings together ideas and techniques from robotics, neuroscience, infant psychology, and artificial intelligence. He addresses a broad range of adaptive behaviors, from cockroach locomotion to the role of linguistic artifacts in higher-level thought.

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Clark's book is an excellent introduction to this new movement in cognitive science. It is clear, wide ranging, well informed, and full of fascinating examples. And, unusually, it manages to be both eminently sensible and highly provocative. -- Margaret A. Boden * Nature *

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Non-Fiction Psychology Cognition & Cognitive Psychology Science Biology, Life Sciences Life Sciences in General Neurosciences Psychological Theory, Systems, Schools of Thought & Viewpoints Behavioural Theory & Behaviourism Computing & I.T.Computer Science Artificial Intelligence

Physiological & Neuro-Psychology, Biopsychology Philosophy Philosophy of The Mind Science in General Cognitivism, Cognitive Theory

Preface: Deep Thought Meets Fluent Action
Acknowledgments
Groundings
Introduction: A Car with a Cockroach Brain
Outing the Mind
Autonomous Agents: Walking on the Moon
Under the Volcano
The Robots' Parade
Minds without Models
Niche Work
A Feel for Detail?
The Refined Robot
The Situated Infant
I, Robot
Action Loops
Development without Blueprints
Soft Assembly and Decentralized Solutions
Scaffolded Minds
Mind as Mirror vs. Mind as Controller
Mind and World: The Plastic Frontier
The Leaky Mind
Neural Networks: An Unfinished Revolution
Leaning on the Environment
Planning and Problem Solving
After The Filing Cabinet
Collective Wisdom, Slime-Mold-Style
Slime Time
Two Forms of Emergence
Sea and Anchor Detail
The Roots of Harmony
Modeling the Opportunistic Mind
Intermission: A Capsule History
Explaining the Extended Mind
Evolving Robots
The Slippery Strategems of the Embodied, Embedded Mind
An Evolutionary Backdrop
Genetic Algorithms as Exploratory Tools
Evolving Embodied Intelligence
SIM Wars (Get Real!)
Understanding Evolved, Embodied, Embedded Agents
Emergence and Explanation
Different Strokes?
From Parts to Wholes
Dynamical Systems and Emergent Explanation
Of Mathematicians and Engineers
Decisions, Decisions
The Brain Bites Back
The Neuroscientific Image
Brains: Why Bother?
The Monkey's Fingers
Primate Vision: From Feature Detection to Tuned Filters6
Neural Control Hypotheses
Refining Representation
Being, Computing, Representing
Ninety Percent of (Artificial) Life?
What Is This Thing Called Representation?
Action-Oriented Representation
Programs, Forces, and Partial Programs
Beating Time
Continuous Reciprocal Causation
Representation-Hungry Problems
Roots
Minimal Representationalism
Further
Minds and Markets
Wild Brains, Scaffolded Minds
Lost in the Supermarket
The Intelligent Office?
Inside the Machine
Designer Environments
Language: The Ultimate Artifact
Word Power
Beyond Communication
Trading Spaces
Thoughts about Thoughts: The Mangrove Effect
The Fit of Language to Brain
Where Does the Mind Stop and the Rest of the World Begin?
Minds, Brains, and Tuna: A Summary in Brine
Epilogue: A Brain Speaks
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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