Embodiment in cognitive systems: on the mutual dependence of cognition and robotics

Cognitive systems anticipate, assimilate, and adapt. They develop and learn, predict, explain, and imagine. In this chapter, we look briefly at the two principal paradigms of cognition, cognitivism and emergence, to determine what embodied form each entails, if any. We highlight one specific emergent approach to embodied cognition enaction and discuss the challenges it poses for the advancement of both robotics and cognition.

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