Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology
Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology
Author: Valentino Braitenberg
Desc: These imaginative thought experiments are the inventions of one of the world's eminent brain researchers. These imaginative thought experiments are the inventions of one of the world's eminent brain researchers. They are vehicles a series of hypothetical self-operating machines that exhibit increasingly intricate if not always successful or civilized behavior. Each of the vehicles in the series incorporates the essential features of all the earlier models and along the way they come to embody aggression love logic manifestations of foresight concept formation creative thinking personality and free will. In a section of extensive biological notes Braitenberg locates many elements of his fantasy in current brain research.