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Being there: putting brain, body, and world together again
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Brain, body, and world are united in a complex dance of circular causation and extended computational activity. In Being There, Andy Clark weaves these several threads into a pleasing whole and goes on to address foundational questions concerning the new tools and techniques needed to make sense of the emerging sciences of the embodied mind. Clark brings together ideas and techniques from robotics, neuroscience, infant psychology, and artificial intelligence. He addresses a broad range of adaptive behaviors, from cockroach locomotion to the role of linguistic artifacts in higher-level thought.
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- Authors
- Clark, A.
- Corresponding author
- Andy Clark
- ORCID
- Andy Clark
- Venue
- Choice Reviews Online
- Publisher
- American Library Association
- Published
- 1997-07-01
- Volume
- 34
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 34-6204-34-6204
- ISSN
- 0009-4978 (ISSN-L)
- 1523-8253
- OpenAlex
- W2469390141
- Cited by
- 2,631
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- 196
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- en
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- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Embodied and Extended Cognition
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Cybernetics and Technology in Society
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Social Robot Interaction and HRI
- Keywords
- embodied mind, extended mind, brain-body-environment interaction, circular causality, robotics, infant psychology, artificial intelligence, adaptive behavior, cockroach locomotion
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