From Bricks to Brains introduces embodied cognitive scienceand illustrates its foundational ideas through the construction andobservation of LEGO Mindstorms robots. It places a renewed emphasis onsensing and acting, the importance of embodiment, the exploration ofdistributed notions of control, and the development of theories bysynthesizing simple systems and exploring their behaviour. Numerousexamples are used to illustrate a key theme: the importance of anagent's environment. Even simple agents, such as LEGO robots, arecapable of exhibiting complex behaviour when they can sense and affectthe world around them.
- ISBN10 1897425791
- ISBN13 9781897425794
- Publish Date 21 June 2014 (first published 1 May 2010)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Imprint Au Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 353
- Language English