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Vehicles, experiments in synthetic psychology

By Valentino Braitenberg

Book information

Publisher
MIT Press
Year
1986
ISBN
9780262521123, 0262022087, 0262521121
LCC
QP356 .B74 1984
Open Library ID
OL16493502M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
1 MB (1572310 bytes)
Pages
163\163
Topic
Technique Transport
Time added
2010-05-31 15:29:46

Description

How people react to this book tells me a lot about them. Vehicles is one of a half-dozen books that changed the way I see the world. It is not a standard science book. Instead, each chapter presents a small but powerful idea; each elaborates on the prior chapters until a view of a world is build (in thought). I personally think it should be on the list of "anti-intelligent design" books -- it shows you that complex visible behavior may originate from much simpler sources than we usually think. It is not a long book, but it is a big book in it's own way. A must-read for anyone interested in AI, cognitive psychology, animal behavior, or evolutionary behavior. I would love to see a follow-up by the author on what he's learned since then.

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