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Written by Web Master
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 IST 027819 ICEA (Integrating Cognition, Emotion and Autonomy) is a four-year project, funded by IST Cognitive Systems Unit.
The ICEA Project is focused on brain-inspired cognitive architectures, robotics and embodied cognition, bringing together cognitive scientists, neuroscientists, psychologists, computational modelers, roboticists and control engineers.
The primary aim of the project is to develop a cognitive systems architecture integrating cognitive, emotional and bioregulatory (self-maintenance) processes, based on the architecture and physiology of the mammalian brain.
 The twofold hypothesis behind this research is that:
- 1. the emotional and bioregulatory mechanisms that come with the organismic embodiment of living cognitive systems also play a crucial role in the constitution of their high-level cognitive processes, and
- 2. models of these mechanisms can be usefully integrated in artificial cognitive systems architectures, which will constitute a significant step towards truly autonomous robotic cognitive systems that reason and behave in accordance with energy and other self-preservation requirements.
In ICEA we will develop a new generic autonomous agent architecture based on the extraction of control design patterns from bioregulatory, emotional and cognitive control loops based on the architecture and physiology of the rat brain.
This website summarily describes the activities and results of the IST 027819 ICEA Project.
Visit also the Cognitive Systems EC Unit website
and the euCognition Coordination Action website.
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 15 November 2008 )
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Launch of the Journal of Mind Theory |
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Written by Ricardo Sanz
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Tuesday, 09 February 2010 |
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We all realise that the number of publications in the field of cognitive science
is continuously growing. This makes the task of getting a state-of-the-art
picture of the field an impossible task for any normal human.
We feel the need for simplification and focusing. We believe that the pursuit
of the ultimate understanding of mind shall be easier if we are able to get rid
of the decorative literature. While that kind of text usually embellishes
the many insights on the nature of mind, a narrower focus on the very core
issues is absolutely neccessary. Succinctness becomes a major target.
Hence, in the old way of the hard sciences, we strive for terse formalisations
that will minimise the need of ink and paper and will hopefully convey precise,
non-interpretable expressions of theories or hypotheses on mind nature.
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Under this programme we are trying to launch yet another journal which intends
this capture of a formal science of mind. Obviously formality and
abstraction has been attempted in the past, but instead of focusing on a
concrete formalism and/or a concrete target for formalisation, we open the domain to the mind at large without
commiting to a particular language. The commitment is only with the objective:
an unified formal theory of mind.
If we are succesful in this simplifying and focusing attempt, then there will be
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 09 February 2010 )
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Written by Ricardo Sanz
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Sunday, 16 November 2008 |
BICS 2010
The ASLab team is organising the next event in the Brain-inspired Cognitive Systems Series. BICS 2010 will take place in Madrid on July 25-28, 2010.
Visit www.bicsconference.org.
The conference is composed of four symposia:
Sixth International ICSC Symposium on Neural Computation (NC'2008)
Fifth International ICSC Symposium on Biologically Inspired Systems (BIS 2008)
Fourth International ICSC Symposium on Cognitive NeuroScience (CNS 2008)
Third International ICSC Symposium on Models of Consciousness (MoC 2008)
Important Dates
Submission of contributions deadline: December 29, 2009
Notification of acceptance: February 28, 2010
All final contributions due: April 30, 2010
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 03 December 2009 )
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Knowledge, Understanding and Consciousness |
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Written by Ricardo Sanz
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Wednesday, 29 April 2009 |
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Workshop
Knowledge, Understanding and Consciousness
12 October 2009, St. Louis, MO, USA
A Workshop on Machine Consciousness within the KIMAS'09 Conference
There is an increasing interest in investigating the possibility of equipping machines with consciousness mechanisms. The rationale behind it may be just a further attempt to mimic biological minds but can be also a search for better performing architectures for machines. Whatever the reason one of the main problem is the still evolving understanding of biological consciousness.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 29 April 2009 )
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BRAHMS Announce @ Sourceforge |
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Written by Ricardo Sanz
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Sunday, 16 November 2008 |
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Future BRAHMS announcements will go only to the "BRAHMS Announce" mailing list. if you are a BRAHMS user, or may be in future, please join the list.
"BRAHMS Announce" is maintained at SourceForge. you can subscribe using this link.
Use this other link to directly go to SourceForge BRAHMS site.
In the next few days, we will be announcing BRAHMS 0.7.1, which fixes a few bugs, tidies some inconsistencies, and adds the BRAHMS Manager, a GUI which makes it significantly easier to manage your configuration and Namespaces. Updated documentation will be released to coincide. this release will be announced only on the above mailing list, so please don't forget to sign up.
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 16 November 2008 )
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