ISSN:
1572-8641
Keywords:
Action
;
anti-individualism
;
artificial agents
;
child development
;
computation
;
embedded systems
;
environmentalism
;
formality condition
;
individualism
;
learning algorithms
;
mobile robots
;
representation
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Computer Science
,
Philosophy
Notes:
Abstract The dispute between individualism and anti-individualism is about the individuation of psychological states, and individualism, on some accounts, is committed to the claim that psychological subjects together with their environments do not constitute integrated computational systems. Hence on this view the computational states that explain psychological states in computational accounts of mind will not involve the subject's natural and social environment. Moreover, the explanation of a system's interaction with the environment is, on this view, not the primary goal of computational theorizing. Recent work in computational developmental psychology (by A. Karmiloff-Smith and J. Rutkowska) as well as artificial agents or embedded artificial systems (by L.P. Kaelbling, among others) casts doubt on these claims. In these computational models, the environment does not just trigger and sustain input for computational operations, but some computational operations actually involve environmental structures.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00974750
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