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Small brains and minimalist emulation: When is an internal model no longer a model?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2004

Barbara Webb
Barbara Webb*
Affiliation:
Institute for Perception, Action and Behaviour, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, EdinburghEH1 2QL, United Kingdomhttp://www.informatics.ed.ac.uk/people/staff/Barbara_Webb.html
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Abstract:

Many of Grush's arguments should apply equally to animals with small brains, for which the capacity to internally model the body and environment must be limited. The dilemma may be solved by making only very approximate predictions, or only attempting to derive a “high-level” prediction from “high-level” output. At the extreme, in either case, the “emulation” step becomes trivial.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 27 , Issue 3 , June 2004 , pp. 421 - 422
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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