Life, Mind, and Robots: The Ins and Outs of Embodied Cognition

@inproceedings{Sharkey1998LifeMA,
  title={Life, Mind, and Robots: The Ins and Outs of Embodied Cognition},
  author={Noel E. Sharkey and Tom Ziemke},
  booktitle={Hybrid Neural Systems},
  year={1998}
}
Many believe that the major problem facing traditional arti- cial intelligence (and the functional theory of mind) is how to connect intelligence to the outside world. Some turned to robotic functionalism and a hybrid response, that attempts to rescue symbolic functionalism by grounding the symbol system with a connectionist hook to the world. Others turned to an alternative approach, embodied cognition, that emer- ged from an older tradition in biology, ethology, and behavioural model- ling… 
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