Tom Ziemke
http://www.ida.his.se/~tom/
Professor of Cognitive Science
School of Humanities and Informatics
University of Skoevde
Skoevde, Sweden
Abstract:
Traditional cognitive science and AI viewed cognition as,
roughly speaking, the computational manipulation of internal
representational knowledge of the external world through state
machines (e.g., of the Turing machine type). Most of this is
strongly questioned in recent work on embodied, situated and
distributed cognition. However, using a number of concrete
examples from robotic experiments, this talk will illustrate
that the notion of state machines is also useful in describing
distributed cognitive processes emerging from the interaction
of embodied agents and their environments, where knowledge
and states are not internal, but distributed over agent and
environment.