According to a recent New York Times article, military pilots of unmanned Predator drones, who operate the drones from Las Vegas, over 7,500 miles away from where the drones are flying, experience more fatigue than actual pilots flying manned planes. The reason? Sensory isolation.
Since drone pilots operate remotely, they rely entirely upon cameras mounted on [...]
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Limited “Situational Awareness” Attributes to Drone Pilot Fatigue
Posted in Perception, Psychology, Technology, tagged bodily perception, drone pilots, embodied, embodiment, Las Vegas, lived experience, New York Times, Perception, predator drones, sensory cues, sensory isolation, situational awareness, unmanned drones on January 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Monday Profile: Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Posted in Epistemology, Existentialism, Monday Profile, Perception, Phenomenology, Philosophy of Mind, Psychology, philosophy, tagged bodily perception, body-subject, cartesianism, cogito, conception, Descartes, developmental psychology, empiricism, idealism, intellectualism, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Merleau-Ponty, Mind, mind and body, Perception, Phenomenology, phenomenology of perception, philosophy, Psychology, subject and object on December 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961) was a French philosopher and phenomenologist. He continues to be credited as the most influential figure in the development of a philosophical understanding of the importance of the body and corporeality.
His most central work in this regard is The Phenomenology of Perception. Through a phenomenological examination of perception, Merleau-Ponty argued for [...]
Monday Profile: Rodney Brooks
Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Biological Sciences, Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Monday Profile, Perception, Robotics, Technology, tagged Artificial Intelligence, biology, cambrian intelligence, cog, CSAIL, elephants don't play chess, embodiment, flesh and machines, frege, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, mobots, perceptual reasoning, Robotics, robots, Rodney Brooks, sensorimotor reasoning, subsumption, subsumption architecture, symbolic processing, turing on December 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Rodney Brooks is a Professor of Robotics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and he also the directs the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Unquestionably, Brooks is the figurehead and principle leader of the embodied robotics movement.
Since his work was first published in 1986, Brooks has brought forth a new era in [...]
Monday Profile: Donna Haraway
Posted in Anthropology, Biological Sciences, Epistemology, Feminist Thought, Monday Profile, Perception, philosophy, tagged biology, cyberculture, cyborg manifesto, cyborgs, Donna Haraway, embodiment, Epistemology, essentialism, feminism, feminist epistemology, gender, history of consciousness, Perception, philosophy, primatology, race, situated knowledge, subject and object, vision, zoology on December 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Donna Haraway is currently a professor of the History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz. She began her career studying Zoology and Philosophy, and eventually earned her Ph.D. in Biology from Yale in 1972.
Haraway’s most central contribution to the study of embodiment comes at an intersection between [...]
Robot Maids Still A Long Ways Off; Mixed Blessing
Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Perception, Robotics, Technology, tagged Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, cognitivism, embodied cognition, embodied robotics, embodiment, Jetsons, Lost in Space, MIT, MIT robotics laboratory, New York Times, Nicholas Roy, robot maids, robot pets, Robotics, science, Stanley Kubrick, terminator on December 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »
In this recent NY Times article, we get asked: “What happened to all of those early promises of having cogent robots, fully or partially integrated into our society, helping us out with all of our daily tasks?” Where are our robot maids, like in The Jetsons? Robots to dramatically and obnoxiously warn us of [...]
VIDEO: Alva Noë Discusses the Problems of Consciousness
Posted in Art, Cognitive Science, Dance and Movement Art, Neuroscience, Perception, Phenomenology, Philosophy of Mind, Video, philosophy, tagged Alva Noë, analytic philosophy, Art, brain, brain science, Cognitive Science, cognitivism, consciousness, dance, embodiment, enactivism, experience, intentionality, minds, Neuroscience, Perception, Phenomenology, philosophy, philosophy of art, Philosophy of Mind, reference, Video on November 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Over at Edge, a video interview and written transcript have been posted of Alva Noë discussing many of the philosophical problems concerning consciousness, and how a paradigm shift toward an embodied understanding of mind might help to resolve those problems.
Within it, Noë notes that most modern cognitivist research about consciousness and experience within neuroscience [...]
VIDEO: Hubert Dreyfus Discusses Embodiment
Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Perception, Phenomenology, Philosophy of Mind, Video, philosophy, tagged AI, Artificial Intelligence, being and time, Cognitive Science, edmund husserl, embodied cognition, embodiment, Hubert Dreyfus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology, philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Video on November 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is not exactly the most engaging production, but the discussion does span a wide variety of issues related to embodiment.
Hubert Dreyfus discusses notions of embodiment throughout the history of philosophy, particularly in relation to the philosophy of Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, and relates it to modern research within Artificial Intelligence and the Internet.
Part [...]
