braitenberg

Start with a simple analog Braitenberg vehicle and learn how to ascribe intelligent behaviour to a purely mechanical system.

Valentino Braitenberg talked about emergent properties in his Vehicles, and this is one he would have totally delighted in.

PS: You might find Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology by Valentino Braitenberg interesting if you don't already know of it.

Vehicles - Valentino Braitenberg I have read so much stuff relating to Cybernetics, AI, emergent systems and self-organization that I am totally saturated with it.

At the time Guile sported a very simple-to-use embedding API and it was lovely to use Scheme for scripting my web server, for building the logic for Braitenberg vehicles, etc.

This reminds me of Braitenberg vehicles.

The kit will also come with some simple sensors which you can use to do things like measure light and distance, which you can use to start playing with feedback control (look up Braitenberg vehicles for a project idea).

And all we have to do is deal with them at a very local kind of a state machine, Braitenberg Machine kind of level, and say that they're angry, and they're hungry, and they're sleepy.

Valetino Braitenberg famously wrote a mind experiment about "Vehicles" which eventually, through interactions with their motors and sensors, become self-aware.

This sort of reminds me of the book "Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology" by Valentino Braitenberg.

A good read is "Braitenberg Vehicles", it shows how even very simple rules can evoke complex behaviour and the appearance of emotions.

"Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology" by Valentino Braitenberg is a quick read, and fun thought experiment.

Braitenberg hypothesized simple mechanical vehicles that evolved survival tactics.

Braitenberg emphasised the importance of analog circuits though.

Braitenberg rather than blocksworld so to speak.