Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic PsychologyThese imaginative thought experiments are the inventions of one of the world's eminent brain researchers. 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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control of behavior | 102 |
McCullochPitts neurons and real neurons | 108 |
Memory | 114 |
Maps and their | 120 |
An inborn category of acoustic form perception | 133 |
embodiments of ideas | 140 |
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Page 147 - Uttley, AM 1956. Conditional probability machines and conditioned reflexes. In: Automata studies, edited by CE Shannon and J. McCarthy. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
Page 43 - ... property for the vision system, from which many others (surface normals, object boundaries) can be derived. It is primal in the sense that we associate the definitions of objects with shape, rather than with color or reflectivity, for example. Webster defines shape as "that quality of an [object] which depends on the relative position of all points composing its outline or external surface.
Page 149 - Abhängigkeit der Reaktion von der Wellenlänge, der Geschwindigkeit, dem Kontrast und der mittleren Leuchtdichte bewegter periodischer Muster.) Kybernetik 2: 15—28.
Page 5 - It is restless, you would say, and does not like warm water. But it is quite stupid, since it is not able to turn back to the nice cold spot it overshot in its restlessness. Anyway, you would say, it is ALIVE, since you have never seen a particle of dead matter move around quite like that.
Page 147 - Automata studies. Edited by CE Shannon and J. McCarthy, Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1956, viii + 285 pp. $4.00. This collection of essays is divided into three sections: "Finite Automata," "Turing Machines,
Page 9 - It, too, is excited by the presence of sources, but resolutely turns toward them and hits them with high velocity, as if it wanted to destroy them.
Page 20 - It is pleasurable and easy to create little machines that do certain tricks. It is also quite easy to observe the full repertoire of behavior of these machines — even if it goes beyond what we had originally planned, as it often does.
Page 151 - Frequency arrangement in anterior ectosylvian auditory cortex of dog,
Bibliographic information
| Title | Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology Bradford Books Bradford book: Psychology |
| Author | Valentino Braitenberg |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | MIT Press, 1986 |
| ISBN | 0262521121, 9780262521123 |
| Length | 168 pages |
| Subjects | › Psychology / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition |
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