The dynamically extended mind: A Minimal Modeling Case Study

2013 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1419-1426

  Froese, Tom ^a   Gershenson, Carlos ^a   Rosenblueth, David A ^a  

^a Cd Universitaria   (Mexico)

Author keywords

cognitive science; dynamical approach; evolutionary robotics; extended mind hypothesis; philosophy of mind

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SCIENCE; DYNAMICAL APPROACHES; EVOLUTIONARY ROBOTICS; EXTENDED MINDS; PHILOSOPHY OF MIND;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84881567298     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2013.6557730     Document Type: Conference Paper

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