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A Comparison of Different Cognitive Paradigms Using Simple Animats in a Virtual Laboratory, with Implications to the Notion of Cognition

Gershenson, Carlos (2002) A Comparison of Different Cognitive Paradigms Using Simple Animats in a Virtual Laboratory, with Implications to the Notion of Cognition. [Thesis]

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In this thesis I present a virtual laboratory which implements five different models for controlling animats: a rule-based system, a behaviour-based system, a concept-based system, a neural network, and a Braitenberg architecture. Through different experiments, I compare the performance of the models and conclude that there is no best model, since different models are better for different things in different contexts. The models I chose, although quite simple, represent different approaches for studying cognition. Using the results as an empirical philosophical aid, I note that there is no best approach for studying cognition, since different approaches have all advantages and disadvantages, because they study different aspects of cognition from different contexts. This has implications for current debates on proper approaches for cognition: all approaches are a bit proper, but none will be proper enough. I draw remarks on the notion of cognition abstracting from all the approaches used to study it, and propose a simple classification for different types of cognition.

Item Type:Thesis
Keywords:notion of cognition, types of cognition, virtual laboratory, animats, cognitive architectures
Subjects:Biology > Animal Cognition
Philosophy > Philosophy of Mind
Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence
ID Code:2452
Deposited By: Gershenson, Carlos
Deposited On:05 Sep 2002
Last Modified:11 Mar 2011 08:55

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