From Embodiments Back to their Models: An Affective Abstraction

www.actcom.co.il/typographics/zippie At the intersection of cognitive science and robotics are, among others, implementational issues that entail in-sights into the nature of embodied intelligence. This paper discusses one such example issue. It is argued that by explicitly entering physical robustness and per-severance of action into a formal cognitive theory, a wide range of behavioral, emotional, and affective phe-nomena can be inferred. In that case they are inter-twined naturally with other intelligent phenomena, not as a shallow artificial patch, but rather as an essential part of a surviving intelligence