Cognitive Architectures { from Knowledge Level to Structural Coupling

This chapter 1 investigates the relation between the two key aspects of intelligent agents: intelligence and agent-hood. EEorts for building general architectures for intelligent agents have typically focussed on one of these aspects. The chapter rst reviews some work on cognitive architectures for intelligence and illustrates how these are being applied to physical agents. Secondly, this chapter puts forward a series of hypotheses on the relationship between cognition and agent-hood. These hypotheses are aimed at a uniied treatment of behavior and cognition. Central to this discussion in the notion of coordination. In particular the nature and role of representations, internal and external, are explained in relation to their coordinating role.