Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology (Vehicles)
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Valentino Braitenberg (Author)
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These 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.
About the Author
Valentino Braitenberg was a director of the Max Planck Institute of Biological Cybernetics and Honorary Professor of Information Science at the University of Tubingen, Germany.
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- Contributor: Valentino Braitenberg
- Imprint: MIT Press
- ISBN13: 9780262521123
- Number of Pages: 168
- Packaged Dimensions: 133x203x10mm
- Packaged Weight: 181
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
- Release Date: 1986-02-07
- Series: Vehicles
- Binding: Paperback / softback
- Biography: Valentino Braitenberg was a director of the Max Planck Institute of Biological Cybernetics and Honorary Professor of Information Science at the University of Tubingen, Germany.
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