Cybernetics and embodied cognition: On the construction of realities in organisms and robots

Kybernetes

Volumn 34, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 118-128

  Ziemke, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SKÖVDE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Artificial intelligence; Cognition; Cybernetics; Reality

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CYBERNETICS; ROBOTICS;

ARTIFICAL INTELLIGENCE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE SCIENCE; COMPUTER METAPHORS; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; EMBODIED COGNITION; PHILOSOPHY OF KNOWLEDGE; REALITY;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

EID: 18844456882     PISSN: 0368492X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03684920510575771     Document Type: Article

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