Being There: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again / Edition 1

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Overview

Brain, body, and world are united in a complex dance of circular causation and extended computational activity. In Being There, Andy Clark weaves these several threads into a pleasing whole and goes on to address foundational questions concerning the new tools and techniques needed to make sense of the emerging sciences of the embodied mind. Clark brings together ideas and techniques from robotics, neuroscience, infant psychology, and artificial intelligence. He addresses a broad range of adaptive behaviors, from cockroach locomotion to the role of linguistic artifacts in higher-level thought.

Discusses new tools & techniques used to study the mind & brain, methodologies incl. robotics, linguistic artifacts.

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Editorial Reviews

Anthony Chemero
Clark's patient exposition of the newest work in cognitive science, unfamiliar to many, and his synthesis, from that work, of a new plan for studying the mind is truly exciting....I recommend Clark's book to any philosopher of mind who wants to do a better job keeping up with developments in cognitive science. —Psyche
Margaret A. Boden
Clark's book is an excellent introduction to this new movement in cognitive science. It is clear, wide ranging, well informed, and full of fascinating examples. And, unusually, it manages to be both eminently sensible and highly provocative. Nature
Anthony Chemero
Clark's patient exposition of the newest work in cognitive science, unfamiliar to many, and his synthesis, from that work, of a new plan for studying the mind is truly exciting....I recommend Clark's book to any philosopher of mind who wants to do a better job keeping up with developments in cognitive science. -- Psyche
Nature
[A]n excellent introduction to this new movement in cognitive science. It is clear, wide ranging, well informed, and full of fascinating examples. And, unusually, it manages to be both eminently sensible and highly provocative. -- Nature
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780262531566
  • Publisher: MIT Press
  • Publication date: 1/9/1998
  • Series: Bradford Books Series
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 291
  • Sales rank: 797,981
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 0.80 (d)

Table of Contents

Preface: Deep Thought Meets Fluent Action
Acknowledgments
Groundings
Introduction: A Car with a Cockroach Brain 1
1 Autonomous Agents: Walking on the Moon 11
2 The Situated Infant 35
3 Mind and World: The Plastic Frontier 53
4 Collective Wisdom, Slime-Mold-Style 71
Intermission: A Capsule History 83
5 Evolving Robots 87
6 Emergence and Explanation 103
7 The Neuroscientific Image 129
8 Being, Computing, Representing 143
9 Minds and Markets 179
10 Language: The Ultimate Artifact 193
11 Minds, Brains, and Tuna (A Summary in Brine) 219
Epilogue 223
Notes 229
Bibliography 249
Index 265
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