Marques, Hugo Gravato, Holland, Owen and Newcombe, Richard (2008) A Modelling Framework for Functional Imagination. In: Symposium on Computing and Philosophy, AISB Convention, 2008, Aberdeen.
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Imagination is generally regarded as a very powerful and advanced cognitive ability. In this paper we propose a mod- elling framework for what we call functional imagination: the ability of an embodied agent to simulate its own behav- iors, predict their sensory-based consequences, and extract behavioural benefit from doing so. We identify five key com- ponents of architectures for functional imagination, and claim that they may be both necessary and sufficient. We outline a typical architecture, explain the flow of control within it, and describe a typical testing scenario using nested physics-based robot models. We also show how malfunctions within such an architecture may produce effects reminiscent of those found in certain human pathologies.
Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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Schools and Departments: | School of Engineering and Informatics > Informatics |
Depositing User: | Owen Holland |
Date Deposited: | 06 Feb 2012 20:48 |
Last Modified: | 13 Apr 2012 10:36 |
URI: | http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/28253 |