Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology

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Valentino Braitenberg (Professor Emeritus, Max-Planck-Institute for Biological Cybernetics)

Vehicles

Experiments in Synthetic Psychology

Valentino Braitenberg (Professor Emeritus, Max-Planck-Institute for Biological Cybernetics)

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MIT Press
07 February 1986

Psychology

Series: Vehicles

"These imaginative thought experiments are the inventions of one of the world's eminent brain researchers.

These imaginative thought experiments are the inventions of one of the world's eminent brain researchers. They are ""vehicles,"" a series of hypothetical, self-operating machines that exhibit increasingly intricate if not always successful or civilized ""behavior."" Each of the vehicles in the series incorporates the essential features of all the earlier models and along the way they come to embody aggression, love, logic, manifestations of foresight, concept formation, creative thinking, personality, and free will. In a section of extensive biological notes, Braitenberg locates many elements of his fantasy in current brain research."

By: Valentino Braitenberg (Professor Emeritus Max-Planck-Institute for Biological Cybernetics)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 133mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 181g
ISBN: 9780262521123
ISBN 10: 0262521121
Series: Vehicles
Pages: 168
Publication Date: 07 February 1986
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Valentino Braitenberg was a director of the Max Planck Institute of Biological Cybernetics and Honorary Professor of Information Science at the University of T bingen, Germany.

Reviews for Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology

The small and cheerful book at hand, by a well-known researcher on the brain from Tubingen, has exploited the virtues of the style with unprecedented consistency, originality and aptness. His thought experiments are not analytic efforts to extract what principles lie behind an imagined observation but are instead synthetic constructions. They are little toys of the mind, devised out of simple if fictional components, entirely functionally described... [A] crisp, cogent book full of intellectual delights. Philip Morrison , Scientific American