Embodiment

ShanghAI Lectures: Rafael Núñez “Where mathematics comes from’”

Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2010-12-16 In this guest lecture, Rafael Núñez from the University of California, San Diego, USA, talks about Mathematics as a paradox for embodiment and cog...

03 April 2014, by Nathan Labhart

ShanghAI Lectures: Louis-Philippe Demers “Embodiment and robotic arts”

The Blind Robot by Louis-Philippe Demers is a reference to the works of Merleau-Ponty and his example of the body extension of the blind man’s cane, where the cane not only senses the world but also...

21 March 2014, by Nathan Labhart

ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 10 “How the body shapes the way we think”

This concludes the ShanghAI Lecture series of 2012. After a wrap-up of the class, we announce the winners of the EmbedIT and NAO competitions and end with an outlook of the future of the ShanghAI Lect...

06 May 2013, by Nathan Labhart

ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 9 “Ontogenetic development”

In the 9th part of the ShanghAI Lecture series, we look at ontogenetic development as Rolf Pfeifer talks about the path from locomotion to cognition. This is followed by two guest lectures: The first ...

25 April 2013, by Nathan Labhart

ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 8 “Where is human memory?”

In this 8th part of the ShanghAI Lecture series, Rolf Pfeifer looks into differences between human and computer memory and shows several types of “memories”. In the first guest lecture, Vera Zabot...

16 April 2013, by Nathan Labhart

ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 7 “Collective Intelligence: Cognition from interaction”

In the 7th part of the ShanghAI Lecture series, Rolf Pfeifer talks about collective intelligence. Examples include ants that find the shortest path to a food source, robots that clean up, and birds th...

06 April 2013, by Nathan Labhart

ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 6 “Evolution: Cognition from scratch”

In this sixth part of the ShanghAI Lecture series, Rolf Pfeifer introduces the topic “Artificial Evolution” and gives examples of evolutionary processes in artificial intelligence. The first guest...

30 March 2013, by Nathan Labhart

ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 5 “Design principles for intelligent systems (part 2)”

This is the second part of the “Design Principles for Intelligent Systems” ShanghAI Lecture. After Rolf Pfeifer’s class, Barry Trimmer (Tufts University, USA) gives a guest presentation about so...

24 March 2013, by Nathan Labhart

ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 4 “Design principles for intelligent systems (part 1)”

This is the fourth part of the ShanghAI Lecture series, where Rolf Pfeifer starts introducing a set of “Design Principles” for intelligent systems, as outlined in the book “How the Body Shapes t...

18 March 2013, by Nathan Labhart

ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 3 “Towards a theory of intelligence”

In this lecture Rolf Pfeifer presents some first steps toward a “theory of intelligence”., followed by guest lectures by Vincent C. Müller (Anatolia College, Greece) on computers and cognition, a...

09 March 2013, by Nathan Labhart

ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 2 “Cognition as computation”

In this 2nd part of the ShanghAI Lectures, Rolf Pfeifer looks at the paradigm “Cognition as Computation”, show its successes and failures and justifies the need for an embodied perspective. Follo...

01 March 2013, by Nathan Labhart

ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 1 “Intelligence – An eternal conundrum”

In this first part of the ShanghAI Lecture series, Rolf Pfeifer gives an overview of the content and scope of the project, discusses the meaning of “Intelligence”, the Turing Test, and IQ....

22 February 2013, by Nathan Labhart