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Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology

By Valentino Braitenberg

Book information

Publisher
A Bradford Book
Year
1986
ISBN
0262521121, 9780262521123
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
24 MB (25238628 bytes)
Edition
Reprint edition
Pages
168\163
Time added
2016-11-22 02:07:46

Description

These imaginative thought experiments are the inventions of one of the world's eminent brain researchers. They are "vehicles," a series of hypothetical, self-operating machines that exhibit increasingly intricate if not always successful or civilized "behavior." Each of the vehicles in the series incorporates the essential features of all the earlier models and along the way they come to embody aggression, love, logic, manifestations of foresight, concept formation, creative thinking, personality, and free will. In a section of extensive biological notes, Braitenberg locates many elements of his fantasy in current brain research.

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