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Philosophy, The Arts and Public Awareness of Science

Contact person:  Wörgötter, Florentin 

This isn’t really a project! Rather here we are just satisfying our curiosity and our excitement about science by trying to look a bit beyond.


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We were asking the question:

  1. Do robots have to be physically embodied and how does this concept (embodiment) reflect itself in the nomenclature of a control engineer?

  2. How is information represented and measured in closed loop perception-action cycles

  3. What makes an agent autonomous and how is this different from a “slave”?


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We were intrigued by the aesthetically very appealing pictures (xxxshow somexxx) obtained from our computer vision algorithms and made a few exhibitions (xxx ask Norbert for references about thisxxx) and published a paper in “Leonardo” (MIT Press).

We participated in events like the “Nacht der Informatik”

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we are sometimes involved in public lectures like: Akademiewoche 2006 Göttingen

Belongs to Group(s):
Computational Neuroscience

Geib, C, Mourao, K, Petrick, R, Pugeault, N, Steedman, M, Krueger, N, and Wörgötter, F (2006).
Object Action Complexes as an Interface for Planning and Robot Control
IEEE RAS Int Conf. Humanoid Robots(Genova):Dec. 4-6, 2006. download file

Krüger, N, and Wörgötter, F (2006).
Symbolic Pointillism: Computer art motivated by human brain structures
Leonardo 38(4):337--340. download file

Porr, B, Egerton, A, and Wörgötter, F (2006).
Towards closed loop information: Predictive information
Constructivist Foundations 1(2):83-90. download file

Porr, B, and Wörgötter, F (2005).
Inside Embodiment — What means Embodiment for Radical Constructivists?
Kybernetes 34:105-117. download file

Krüger, N, and Wörgötter, F (2003).
Symbolic Pointillism: Computer art motivated by human perception
Proceedings of the AISB 2003 Symposium on Biologically inspired Machine Vision, Theory and Application, Wales:63-69. download file

Porr, B, and Wörgötter, F (2003).
Interaction, self-reference and contingency in computational neuroscience: analytical descriptions and information theoretic consequences.
In: Rethinking Communicative Interaction: New interdisciplinary horizons, edited by Colin B. Grant. John Benjamins Publ. Co., Amsterdam, Philadelphia, pages 145-162. download file