How Information and Embodiment Shape Intelligent Information Processing

“The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com”. Copyright Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-77296-5_10 [Full text of this article is not available in the UHRA]Embodied artificial intelligence is based on the notion that cognition and action emerge from interactions between brain, body and environment. This chapter sketches a set of foundational principles that might be useful for understanding the emergence (“discovery”) of intelligence in biological and artificial embodied systems. Special emphasis is placed on information as a crucial resource for organisms and on information theory as a promising descriptive and predictive framework linking morphology, perception, action and neural control.Peer reviewe