Cognitive Architectures

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This book provides an integrated framework for natural and artificial cognition by highlighting the fundamental role played by the cognitive architecture in the dialectics with the surrounding environment and consequently in the definition of a particular meaningful world. This book is also about embodied and non-embodied artificial systems, cognitive architectures that are human constructs, meant to be able to populate the human world, capable of identifying different life contexts and replicating human patterns of behavior capable of acting according to human values and conventions, systems that perform tasks in a human-like way. By identifying the essential phenomena at the core of all forms of cognition, the book addresses the topic of design of artificial cognitive architectures in the domains of robotics and artificial life. Moving from mere bio-inspired design methodology it aims to open a pathway to semiotically determined design. Front Matter ....Pages i-xviii Cognitive Architectures: The Dialectics of Agent/Environment (Maria Isabel Aldinhas Ferreira)....Pages 1-12 Complementarity of Seeing and Appearing (Jindřich Brejcha, Pavel Pecháček, Karel Kleisner)....Pages 13-30 The Extended Domicile—Culture, Embodied Existence and the Senses (Juhani Pallasmaa)....Pages 31-41 What We Need from an Embodied Cognitive Architecture (Serge Thill)....Pages 43-57 The Architect’s Dilemmas (David Vernon)....Pages 59-70 Human Cognition-Inspired Robotic Grasping (Marco Monforte, Fanny Ficuciello, Bruno Siciliano)....Pages 71-84 The Synthetic Psychology of the Self (Tony J. Prescott, Daniel Camilleri)....Pages 85-104 Constructive Biology of Emotion Systems: First- and Second-Person Methods for Grounding Adaptation in a Biological and Social World (Chrystopher L. Nehaniv)....Pages 105-128 Modeling Cognition–Emotion Interactions in Symbolic Agent Architectures: Examples of Research and Applied Models (Eva Hudlicka)....Pages 129-143 Improving Human Behavior Using POMDPs with Gestures and Speech Recognition (João A. Garcia, Pedro U. Lima)....Pages 145-163 An Overview of the Distributed Integrated Cognition Affect and Reflection DIARC Architecture (Matthias Scheutz, Thomas Williams, Evan Krause, Bradley Oosterveld, Vasanth Sarathy, Tyler Frasca)....Pages 165-193 Non-human Intention and Meaning-Making: An Ecological Theory (Michael A. R. Biggs)....Pages 195-204 Implementing Social Smart Environments with a Large Number of Believable Inhabitants in the Context of Globalization (Alexander Osherenko)....Pages 205-221 EcoSim, an Enhanced Artificial Ecosystem: Addressing Deeper Behavioral, Ecological, and Evolutionary Questions (Ryan Scott, Brian MacPherson, Robin Gras)....Pages 223-278