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In time and over time

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1998

Tim Smithers
Affiliation:
Faculty of Industrial Engineering, University of Navarra, 20099 Donostia, San Sebastián, Gipuzkoa, Spaintsmithers@ceit.esesiiss.ceit.es

Abstract

Van Gelder's clear distinction between the quantitative nature of dynamical systems and the nonquantitative nature of computational processes provides a firm basis for distinguishing between processes that happen in time and processes that happen over time. Symbolic reasoning, the presumed basis of intelligent behavior in robots, happens over time. However, the movements and actions that robots must make to behave intelligently, happen in time. Attempting to connect the two, as classical artificial intelligence and robotics have presumed to be necessary, has produced a tension and an arbitrarily moving interface in the construction of robots. Adopting a robotic version of the dynamical hypothesis offers sound theoretical and scientific justification for those robotics researchers who continue to insist that getting the interaction dynamics of intelligent behavior right is a purely dynamical matter, and never a symbolic computational one.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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