Nick
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# Episodes
50 episodes -
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Episodes of Nick
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Alergic - The Extended Mind and Consciousness - ...
Abstract: Where does my mind stop and the rest of the world begin? Can my conscious experience involve the environment around me? Exponents of the Extended Mind Thesis (EMT) argue that the mind can extend outside the body. One such exponent of EMT is Andy Clark. Clark argues that the machinery responsible for cognition can include objects in the environment but the machinery responsible for consciousness must, as a matter of empirical fact, remain brain bound. I will argue that Clark is correc...
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Release date
Dec 9, 2011
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Runtime
57:32
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Clones finite element neuromuscular worm
A short screen capture showing a simulation running in Clones. This worm has a neuromuscular system derived from Jordan Boyle's PhD thesis on C.elegans. The body is simulated by a finite element mesh. The muscles are four chains of springs along the margins of the body. ; Their rest length, stiffness and damping are set by nervous stimulation. The muscles also act as stretch receptors for nervous sensation. The yellow spheres are the collision model, attached to the nodes of the boundary mesh....
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Release date
May 4, 2011
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Runtime
01:29
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Alergic - Non-Localizable Robustness - 3rd Nov 2...
Lessons from minimal bio-inspired systemsLONG-ABSTRACT: Theoretical discussions and computational models of bio-inspired embodied and situated agents are presented in this seminar capturing in simplified form the dynamical essence of robust and adaptive behaviour. The general problem of how dynamical coupling between internal control (brain), body, and environment are exploited in the generation of behaviour is particularly analyzed.This seminar proposes that the growing consensus about the im...
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Release date
Nov 25, 2010
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Runtime
01:04:00
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Alergic - Yukio-Pegio Gunji - Wed 20th Oct 2010
Soldier Crab Swarming and Dual Neighborhood System modelYukio-Pegio Gunji (Kobe University)Soldier crabs in Japan make a big swarming composed of from hundredsto several thousands individuals. ;>From the observation of soldiercrab behavior we constructed a model for swarming, featuring two kinds of neighborhood. Our model can mimic the wondering behavior of swarms,mass effect to crossing the water, and oscillating behavior in aclosed container (crab clock). It also explains the scale-freecorre...
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Release date
Oct 22, 2010
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Runtime
54:54
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Alergic Soichiro Tsuda 20th Oct 2010
Mould Intelligence: Computation with Slime MouldSoichiro Tsuda -- University of the West of England BristolA plasmodium of true slime mould Physarum Polycephalum shows various kinds of interesting behaviour, such as multiple cell fusion,autonomous contraction oscillation, and optimised network formation,even though it is just a single-cell organism. The talk will give abrief overview of research on the "primitive intelligence" of this natural swarm intelligence system and how this organism can...
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Release date
Oct 21, 2010
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Runtime
52:53
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Alergic Chris Harris 6th Oct 2010
Network dynamics, dopamine and operant control: lessons from the molluskan buccal gangliaAbstractMultielectrode array (MEA) analysis of molluskan nervous systems is an experimental technique recently developed at the University of Sussex (Harris et al., 2010). Here I discuss our current understanding of the molluskan buccal ganglia, with examples from the MEA work, and relate it to more general theories of network dynamics, pattern generation, dopamine-mediated reward and operant control. Vari...
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Release date
Oct 7, 2010
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Runtime
01:06:04
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Life&Mind Nick Hockings 20th Sept 2010 - Histolo...
An analysis of why robots constructed of rigid materials fail as biomimetic systems and as embodiment for lifelike intelligence.Examines histology as materials science underpinning biomechanics. Introduces the concept of ‘material embodiment’. Demonstrates that the body is not an assembly of parts, but a single fibro-elastic continuum, that uses hyper-elastic fiber-gels to achieve low friction dynamics and energy conservation. Presents a series of engineering proposals for how to build soft bo...
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Release date
Oct 5, 2010
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Runtime
55:58
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Compliant Paws - cat video
Video accompanying the seminar "Histology for Robot Engineers" given by Nick Hockings at the Italian Institute if Technology, in Genova, on 22nd September 2010, (and at Life and Mind at Sussex on the 20th September 2010). The video includes clips from publicity material of Boston Dynamics "BigDog" robot, and "Oscar" the double amputee cat Fitzpatrick's Referrals veterinary orthopedic center, plus some You-Tube clips of normal cats.The footage demonstrates the similarity of the gait abnormaliti...
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Release date
Oct 5, 2010
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Runtime
03:20
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Alergic Paul L Williams 1st Sept 2010
Information theory provides a powerful set of tools for the analysis of embodied agents. However, while methods for quantifying static information ;structure are well established, only recently have information‐theoretic techniques
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Release date
Oct 5, 2010
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Runtime
01:17:27
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Life & Mind Eduardo Izquiredo 31st Aug 2010
Evolution and analysis of minimal neural circuits for klinotaxis in C. elegansChemotaxis during sinusoidal locomotion in nematodes captures in simplified form the general problem of how dynamical interactions between the nervous system, body, and environment are exploited in the generation of adaptive behavior. We used an evolutionary algorithm to generate neural networks that exhibit klinotaxis, a common form of chemotaxis in which the direction of locomotion in a chemical gradient closely fo...
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Release date
Oct 5, 2010
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Runtime
01:00:01
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