Environments of Intelligence : : From Natural Information to Artificial Interaction.

• Superior document: History and Philosophy of Technoscience Series
• Author: Greif, Hajo.
• Place / Publishing House: Milton : : Taylor & Francis Group,, 2017.; Ã2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: History and Philosophy of Technoscience Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (231 pages)

Table of Contents

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Preliminaries: ants and robots, parlour games and steam drills -- Background -- Outline -- Notes -- Part I Informational environments -- 2 Resurrecting Dretskean information -- Information, behaviour and probability -- The content of natural information, and some discontent -- Alternative views of information -- Natural information and the roots of intentionality -- Notes -- 3 Varieties of perception -- Perception as information processing: the computational view -- Information specifies affordances: the ecological view -- Perceptual illusions vs. misperception: the empirical strategy -- Notes -- 4 The domains of natural information -- Natural information and reference classes -- Informational domains -- Resurrection at last -- Notes -- 5 Making an environment -- History, ecology, environment -- Adapting ecological niches -- Construction and constitution -- Notes -- 6 What is an informational environment? -- Environmental information and the use of cognition -- What informational environments are -- How informational environments change -- Note -- Part II Environments of intelligence -- 7 The extension of the extended mind -- The extension of functional histories -- The constitution of cognitive extensions -- Constitutional matters -- The art of coupling, basic and advanced -- Notes -- 8 The nature of cognitive artefacts -- Being guided by pictures -- Cognitive artefacts and informational environments -- Convergence and isomorphism -- Notes -- 9 The intelligence of environments -- Evolutionary and cognitive robotics -- Embodied conversational agents and social robotics -- Second Life -- Mixed Reality Games -- Augmented Reality -- Naturalising the artificial -- Notes -- 10 Afterthoughts on conceptual analysis and human nature -- A domain for conceptual analysis.

A naturalist's view of human nature and machines -- Bibliography -- Author Index -- Subject Index.