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.

I Outing the Mind

1 Autonomous Agents: Walking on the Moon

1.1 Under the Volcano

1.2 The Robots' Parade

1.3 Minds without Models

1.4 Niche Work

1.5 A Feel for Detail?

1.6 The Refined Robot

2 The Situated Infant

2.1 I, Robot

2.2 Action Loops

2.3 Development without Blueprints

2.4 Soft Assembly and Decentralized Solutions

2.5 Scaffolded Minds

2.6 Mind as Mirror vs. Mind as Controller

3 Mind and World: The Plastic Frontier

3.1 The Leaky Mind

3.2 Neural Networks: An Unfinished Revolution

3.3 Leaning on the Environment

3.4 Planning and Problem Solving

3.5 After The Filing Cabinet

4 Collective Wisdom, Slime-Mold-Style

4.1 Slime Time

4.2 Two Forms of Emergence

4.3 Sea and Anchor Detail

4.4 The Roots of Harmony

4.5 Modeling the Opportunistic Mind

Intermission: A Capsule History

II Explaining the Extended Mind

5 Evolving Robots

5.1 The Slippery Strategems of the Embodied, Embedded Mind

5.2 An Evolutionary Backdrop

5.3 Genetic Algorithms as Exploratory Tools

5.4 Evolving Embodied Intelligence

5.5 SIM Wars (Get Real!)

5.6 Understanding Evolved, Embodied, Embedded Agents

6 Emergence and Explanation

6.1 Different Strokes?

6.2 From Parts to Wholes

6.3 Dynamical Systems and Emergent Explanation

6.4 Of Mathematicians and Engineers

6.5 Decisions, Decisions

6.6 The Brain Bites Back

7 The Neuroscientific Image

7.1 Brains: Why Bother?

7.2 The Monkey's Fingers

7.3 Primate Vision: From Feature Detection to Tuned Filters6

7.4 Neural Control Hypotheses

7.5 Refining Representation

8 Being, Computing, Representing

8.1 Ninety Percent of (Artificial) Life?

8.2 What Is This Thing Called Representation?

8.3 Action-Oriented Representation

8.4 Programs, Forces, and Partial Programs

8.5 Beating Time

8.6 Continuous Reciprocal Causation

8.7 Representation-Hungry Problems

8.8 Roots

8.9 Minimal Representationalism

III Further

9 Minds and Markets

9.1 Wild Brains, Scaffolded Minds

9.2 Lost in the Supermarket

9.3 The Intelligent Office?

9.4 Inside the Machine

9.5 Designer Environments

10 Language: The Ultimate Artifact

10.1 Word Power

10.2 Beyond Communication

10.3 Trading Spaces

10.4 Thoughts about Thoughts: The Mangrove Effect

10.5 The Fit of Language to Brain

10.6 Where Does the Mind Stop and the Rest of the World Begin?

11 Minds, Brains, and Tuna: A Summary in Brine

Epilogue: A Brain Speaks

Notes

Bibliography

Index 
 

Andy Clark is Doctor of Philosophy at the School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences at the University of Sussex.

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