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Embodied Cognition and iCub
An iCub robot mounted on a supporting frame. The robot is 104 cm high and weighs around 22 kg An iCub is a 1 metre high humanoid robot testbed for research into human cognition and artificial intelligence. Systems that perceive, understand and act It was designed by the RobotCub Consortium, of several European universities and…
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Google Search Characters: Eliza and The Wayback Machine
Life must be understood backwards; but… it must be lived forward. Soren Kierkegaard Now this quote above by Soren is not just an application, to a point of view, but of an idea about what we can funnel through and forward using the connective links as an Wayback machine, as to living our lives forward.…
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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan in the early 1970s Born July 21, 1911Edmonton, Alberta Died December 31, 1980 (aged 69) Toronto, Ontario School Media theory Main interests Media, Mass media, Sensorium, New Criticism Notable ideas The medium is the message, Global village, Metamedia, Media ecology, Figure and ground media, Tetrad of media effects, Hot and cool media Herbert Marshall…
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Self-organization
Self-organization From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Self-organization is the process where a structure or pattern appears in a system without a central authority or external element imposing it. This globally coherent pattern appears from the local interaction of the elements that makes up the system, thus the organization is achieved in a way that is…
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Wikipedia Portal:Mind and Brain
What is the compelling urgency of the machine that it can so intrude itself into the very stuff out of which man builds his world?JOSEPH WEIZENBAUM 1923 – 2008 See: Eliza What is beauty in face of simplicity? >Beauty, Plato wrote, is not easy to define, but something that “slips through and evades us”. For…
