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Small brains and minimalist emulation: When is an internal model no longer a model?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2004

Barbara Webb*
Affiliation:
Institute for Perception, Action and Behaviour, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH1 2QL, United Kingdom http://www.informatics.ed.ac.uk/people/staff/Barbara_Webb.html
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Many of Grush's arguments should apply equally to animals with small brains, for which the capacity to internally model the body and environment must be limited. The dilemma may be solved by making only very approximate predictions, or only attempting to derive a “high-level” prediction from “high-level” output. At the extreme, in either case, the “emulation” step becomes trivial.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004