FCJ-206 From Braitenberg’s Vehicles to Jansen’s Beach Animals: Towards an Ecological Approach to the Design of Non-Organic Intelligence

This article presents a comparison of two proposals for how to conceive of the evolution of non-organic intelligence. One is Valentino Braitenberg’s 1984 essay ‘Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology’. The other is the Strandbeesten (beach animals) of Dutch engineer-artist Theo Jansen. Jansen...

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Main Author: Maaike Bleeker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Humanities Press 2016-12-01
Series:Fibreculture Journal
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Online Access:http://twentyeight.fibreculturejournal.org/2017/01/22/fcj-206-from-braitenbergs-vehicles-to-jansens-beach-animals-towards-an-ecological-approach-to-the-design-of-non-organic-intelligence/