Volume 9, Number 1
November 2013
Special Issue “Computational Approaches to Constructivism”, edited by Alexander Riegler & Tom Ziemke
Cover Art: “Exploration of Related Points Along a Space Filling Curve #2” © Don Relyea 2007, algorithmic composition
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Computation, Cognition and Constructivism: Introduction to the Special Issue
Constructivism and Computation: Can Computer-Based Modeling Add to the Case for Constructivism?
Are Computers Digital? Should Constructivists Care?
Weak and Strong Constructivist Foundations
The Construction of the Environment
Author’s Response: Constructivism as Possibility?
Exploration of the Functional Properties of Interaction: Computer Models and Pointers for Theory
Systems Sciences and the Limitations of Computer Models of Constructivist Processes
Reactive Rules Alone Cannot Construct Cognition
Towards Constructive Foundations of Cognitivism: Breaking in Open Doors?
Single Agents Can Be Constructivist too
Authors’ Response: Learning, Anticipation and the Brain
To Bridge the Gap between Sensorimotor and Higher Levels, AI Will Need Help from Psychology
Environments Are Typically Continuous and Noisy
The Power of Constructivist Ideas in Artificial Intelligence
Anticipatory? Yes. Constructivist? Maybe
Action, Anticipation, and Construction: The Cognitive Core
Representing Knowledge in a Computational Constructivist Agent
Some Comments on the Relationship Between Artificial Intelligence and Human Cognition
Author’s Response: Evaluating CALM
Investigating Extended Embodiment Using a Computational Model and Human Experimentation
Goal-directed Action and Eligible Forms of Embodiment
Tool-use Leads to Bodily Extension, but not Bodily Incorporation: The Limits of Mind-as-it-could-be?
Interaction-Dominant Dynamics and Extended Embodiment
Authors’ Response: From Bodily Extension to Bodily Incorporation
Homeostats for the 21st Century? Simulating Ashby Simulating the Brain
Standing on the Broad Shoulders of Ashby
From Fechner, via Freud and Pavlov, to Ashby
Ashby’s Passive Contingent Machines Are not Alive: Living Beings Are Actively Goal-directed
For Biological Systems, Maintaining Essential Variables Within Viability Limits Is Not Passive
Interpreting Ashby – But which One?
The Self-moving Oil Droplet as a Homeostat
Author’s Response: Is the Homeostat a Passive Machine? Is Life a Passive Phenomenon?
A Cybernetic Computational Model for Learning and Skill Acquisition
Early Computer Models of Cognitive Systems and the Beginnings of Cognitive Systems Dynamics
Taking Semantics and Embodiment into Account
On Models, Simulations, and the Relevancy of Biochemistry to Cognitive Functions
Author’s Response: Explaining Cognition and Explaining Explaining
Publication Review. Recent Books and Articles Related to Constructivist Approaches