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Record Nr.

UNINA9910349284403321

Autore

Ghazi-Zahedi Keyan

Titolo

Morphological Intelligence : Measuring the Body’s Contribution to Intelligence / / by Keyan Ghazi-Zahedi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019

ISBN

3-030-20621-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIII, 180 p. 70 illus., 40 illus. in color.)

Disciplina

006.3

153

Soggetti

Artificial intelligence

Bioinformatics

Biomechanics

Coding theory

Information theory

Artificial Intelligence

Computational Biology/Bioinformatics

Coding and Information Theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

From Morphological Computation to Morphological Intelligence -- Information Theory – A Practical Primer -- A Theory of Morphological Intelligence -- Numerical Analysis of the Morphological Intelligence Quantifications -- Applications. .

Sommario/riassunto

Intelligence results from the interaction of the brain, body and environment. The question addressed in this book is, can we measure the contribution of the body and its' interaction with the environment? To answer this, we first present a comprehensive overview of the various ways in which a body reduces the amount of computation that the brain has to perform to solve a task. This chapter will broaden your understanding of how important inconspicuously appearing physical processes and physical properties of the body are with respect to our cognitive abilities. This form of contribution to intelligence is called Morphological Intelligence. The main contribution of this book to the



field is a detailed discussion of how Morphological Intelligence can be measured from observations alone. The required mathematical framework is provided so that readers unfamiliar with information theory will be able to understand and apply the measures. Case studies from biomechanics and soft robotics illustrate how the presented quantifications can, for example, be used to measure the contribution of muscle physics to jumping and optimise the shape of a soft robotic hand. To summarise, this monograph presents various examples of how the physical properties of the body and the body’s interaction with the environment contribute to intelligence. Furthermore, it treats theoretical and practical aspects of Morphological Intelligence and demonstrates the value in two case studies.