Hours:
20 hours (5 credits)
Room:
Aula Riunioni del Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Via G. Caruso 16, Pisa - Ground Floor
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Short Abstract:
This short course has three aims:
- Providing a critical-historical account of long enduring effort to develop humanized machines.
- Providing insight from large multidisciplinary stance of theories and implementations
- Describing the author’s own effort to develop a sentient humanoid
Course Contents in brief:
- HISTORIES OF AUTOMATA ( OPTIONAL )
From Hero to Voucanson
From Wiener to Walters
From Ashby to McCarthy
From McCarthy to Brooks
- The rise of Humanoids
Androids, gynoids and cyborg
Just like a human? The Uncanny Valley controversy
Internal robotics and machine monism
- Robotics meets neuroscience
Cognitive neuroscience and the rise of affectivism
Affect and emotions
Edelman neural darwinism
Damasio theory of consciousness
Craig on interoception and inner time
-Robotics meets phenomenology
Time of physics and subjective time: Einstein and Bergson
From Husserl to Varela
The embodied mind and the neurophenomenology program
Emotions, feelings and the self
A syncretic model of time-consciousness
-Towards sentient robots
A situated,embodied ,enactive machine
Body awareness and the protoself
Time-consciousness and the minimal self : core cosciousness
The autobiografical self and the extended consciousness
-Do we need conscious robots? Ethics and societal needs
Schedule:
- 19/3/2023 - 9:00-12:00
- 20/3/2023 - 9:00-12:00
- 21/3/2023 - 9:00-13:00
- 25/3/2023 - 9:00-12:00
- 26/3/2023 - 9:00-13:00
- 27/3/2023 - 9:00-12:00
