A proposal for the biological grounding of intrinsic teleology and sense-making through the
theory of autopoiesis is critically evaluated. Autopoiesis provides a systemic language for
speaking about intrinsic teleology but its original formulation needs to be elaborated further …

A comprehensive presentation of an approach that proposes a new account of cognition at
levels from the cellular to the social. This book presents the framework for a new,
comprehensive approach to cognitive science. The proposed paradigm, enaction, offers an …

We review and critique a range of perspectives on the scientific role of individual-based
evolutionary simulation models as they areused within artificial life. We find that such models
have the potential to enrich existing modelling enterprises through their strength in …

There is a small but growing community of researchers spanning a spectrum of disciplines
which are united in rejecting the still dominant computationalist paradigm in favor of the
enactive approach. The framework of this approach is centered on a core set of ideas, such …

In 1972, and later in 1979, at the peak of the golden era of Good Old Fashioned Artificial
Intelligence (GOFAI), the voice of philosopher Hubert Dreyfus made itself heard as one of
the few calls against the hubristic programme of modelling the human mind as a mechanism …

Enactive approaches foreground the role of interpersonal interaction in explanations of
social understanding. This motivates, in combination with a recent interest in neuroscientific
studies involving actual interactions, the question of how interactive processes relate to …

Adaptation to inversion of the visual eld is studied in a simple simulated model of phototactic
behaviour. Inspired by recent ndings in neuroscience, a novel neural architecture based on
continuous dynamical neural networks is implemented. Individual cells behave …

Social coordination is studied in a simulated model of autonomous embodied agents that
interact acoustically. Theoretical concepts concerning social behavior are presented from a
systemic per spective and their usefulness is evaluated in interpreting the results obtained …

We introduce a series of evolutionary robotics simulations that address the behaviour of
individuals in socially contingent interactions. The models are based on a recent study by
Auvray, Lenay and Stewart [(2006). The attribution of intentionality in a simulated …

Embodied approaches to cognition hold that the body is crucial for cognition. Yet despite
many decades of research, 1 what this “embodiment thesis” 2 (Wilson and Foglia 2011)
amounts to still remains unclear, as the present volume with its diverse range of …