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Readings about the embodied paradigm.

For more information about the embodied paradigm, here is a short list of selected readings:

• The Wikipedia article on Embodied Cognition.
• Georgeon & Cordier (2014). Inverting the interaction cycle to model embodied agents. Fifth International Conference on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures (BICA2014). Boston.
  We wrote this paper after this lesson; it develops the same ideas in a deeper and more academic form. It will also point you to other classical references in the domain of developmental learning.
• A book often considered as one of the founding references for embodied cognition: Varela, Thompson, and Rosch (1991). The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

In contrast, here is the famous big book that you do NOT need to read for this course:

• Russell and Norvig's Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach is arguably the first book everybody interested in AI should acquire for their library. However, you will not need it for this course.
  You will find that it is at odds with the embodied paradigm by page iv (page 4 of the preface!) where it posits "the problem of AI is to describe and build agents that receive percepts from the environment and perform actions" (if you don't see the tension, please read Page 12 again).

Please post your comments on these readings or suggest other readings in the Developmental AI MOOC Gooogle+ community using the links at the bottom of this page.

This ends Lesson 1. The participants of the IDEAL MOOC may go back to their session in Claroline Connect to answer a questionnaire about Lesson 1 and about the activity trace in Table 14.

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