Homeostasis and soft robotics in the design of feeling machines

K Man, A Damasio - Nature Machine Intelligence, 2019‏ - nature.com
Attempts to create machines that behave intelligently often conceptualize intelligence as the
ability to achieve goals, leaving unanswered a crucial question: whose goals? In a dynamic …

The enactive approach to habits: New concepts for the cognitive science of bad habits and addiction

S Ramírez-Vizcaya, T Froese - Frontiers in Psychology, 2019‏ - frontiersin.org
Habits are the topic of a venerable history of research that extends back to antiquity, yet they
were originally disregarded by the cognitive sciences. They started to become the focus of …

[كتاب][B] Phenomenology: an introduction

S Käufer, A Chemero - 2021‏ - books.google.com
A classic in its field, this comprehensive book introduces the core history of phenomenology
and assesses its relevance to contemporary psychology, philosophy of mind, and cognitive …

Embodied instrumentation in learning mathematics as the genesis of a body-artifact functional system

A Shvarts, R Alberto, A Bakker, M Doorman… - Educational Studies in …, 2021‏ - Springer
Recent developments in cognitive and educational science highlight the role of the body in
learning. Novel digital technologies increasingly facilitate bodily interaction. Aiming for …

The ecological-enactive model of disability: Why disability does not entail pathological embodiment

J Toro, J Kiverstein, E Rietveld - Frontiers in Psychology, 2020‏ - frontiersin.org
In the last 50 years, discussions of how to understand disability have been dominated by the
medical and social models. Paradoxically, both models overlook the disabled person's …

Explaining multistability: postphenomenology and affordances of technologies

B De Boer - AI & society, 2023‏ - Springer
A central issue in postphenomenology is how to explain the multistability of technologies:
how can it be that specific technologies can be used for a wide variety of purposes (the …

The motor creativity paradox: Constraining to release degrees of freedom.

C Torrents, N Balagué, Á Ric… - Psychology of Aesthetics …, 2021‏ - psycnet.apa.org
The use of constraints to foster creativity has been studied in different domains, but has been
generally ignored in sports training and the learning process of movement-based practices …

The problem of meaning: The free energy principle and artificial agency

J Kiverstein, MD Kirchhoff, T Froese - Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 2022‏ - frontiersin.org
Biological agents can act in ways that express a sensitivity to context-dependent relevance.
So far it has proven difficult to engineer this capacity for context-dependent sensitivity to …

Bringing forth a world, literally

G Rolla, N Figueiredo - Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 2023‏ - Springer
Our objective in this paper is twofold: first, we intend to address the tenability of the enactivist
middle way between realism and idealism, as it is proposed in The Embodied Mind. We do …

Preventing antisocial robots: A pathway to artificial empathy

L Christov-Moore, N Reggente, A Vaccaro… - Science Robotics, 2023‏ - science.org
Given the accelerating powers of artificial intelligence (AI), we must equip artificial agents
and robots with empathy to prevent harmful and irreversible decisions. Current approaches …