Ezequiel A. Di Paolo

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The Continuity between Life and Language

By Ezequiel A. Di Paolo, Elena Clare Cuffari, Hanne De Jaegher

Linguistic Bodies offers a fully embodied and fully social treatment of human language without positing mental representations. The authors present the first coherent, overarching theory that connects dynamical explanations of action and perception with language. Arguing from the assumption of a deep continuity between life and mind, they show that this continuity extends to language. Expanding...

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Enaction

Toward a New Paradigm for Cognitive Science

Edited By John Stewart, Olivier Gapenne, Ezequiel A. Di Paolo

This book presents the framework for a new, comprehensive approach to cognitive science. The proposed paradigm, enaction, offers an alternative to cognitive science's classical, first-generation Computational Theory of Mind (CTM). Enaction, first articulated by Varela, Thompson, and Rosch in The Embodied Mind (MIT Press, 1991), breaks from CTM’s formalisms of information processing and...

The Horizons of Evolutionary Robotics

Edited By Patricia A. Vargas, Ezequiel A. Di Paolo, Inman Harvey, Phil Husbands

Evolutionary robotics (ER) aims to apply evolutionary computation techniques to the design of both real and simulated autonomous robots. The Horizons of Evolutionary Robotics offers an authoritative overview of this rapidly developing field, presenting state-of-the-art research by leading scholars. The result is a lively, expansive survey that will be of interest to computer scientists, robotics...