The Neurobiological Roots of Rational Thinking

Computational theories of mind that approach the performance of high level cognitive operations through the manipulation of symbolic representation, as promoted by Artificial Intelligence, has long dominated the study of higher cognitive functions. New approaches of contemporary robotics tend to look at lower level of intelligent behavior. Their explicit ambition is to explain how rational thinking might progressively emerge from a coordinated combination of basic sensori-motor devices that allows autonomous systems to survive in a given ecological niche.

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