The 2th KARC Colloquium
The 2th KARC Colloquium was ended. Thank you for the participation.
● Date and Time: 4 September (Tue.) 14:00-16:00
● Place: KARC, Building 1, 2nd floor,
Conference Room
588-2 Iwaoka, Iwaoka-cho,
Nishi-ku, Kobe-city 651-2492
● Program The Robot Experiments on the Embodied Cognition
Jun Tani (RIKEN,BSI)
【Abstract】
In this talk, I will discuss how the equivalences of symbolic systems could be self-organized in the neural dynamical systems by utilizing the sensori-motor experiences of the systems. We will show how modular and level structures can be self-organized in a specific neural network model which enables robots to recognize their environment as articulated in multiple levels. We will explain both situations of grounding and ungrounding of such "symbolic structures" to the physical environment in the cognitive behavior of the robots in terms of coherence and incoherence which are taken place in the bottom-up and the top-down interactions between the environment and the internal systems. We argue that both situations are indispensable in order to guarantee the robots to be robust and adaptive simultaneously in the open-environment. I will discuss possible correspondences of our modeling and experimental results to works by Kawato and Tanji focusing on functions of cerebellum and pre-SMC respectively. In addition, we will show our reinterpretations of phenomenological issues including the "momentary self" of William James and the "subjective time" of Husserl.