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Christian scheier is a postdoctoral fellow at the california institute of technology, pasadena, california. Sorry, we are unable to provide the full text but you may find it at the following locations. In this paper 1, we will argue that if we want to understand the function. Understanding intelligence by rolf pfeifer and christian. Download understanding computers and cognition a new foundation for design ebook for free in pdf and epub format. Recently there has been an increasing interest in the notion of embodiment not only in robotics and artificial intelligence, but. Josh bongard is a postdoctoral associate in the computational synthesis lab, sibley school of mechanical and aerospace engineering, at cornell university.
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