We present a novel computer game-based framework for phonetic perception experiments. We employ the game environment of a first-person shooter game where players interact with and respond to animated creatures in different virtual environments. Whenever the player encounters such an animated creature, a sound stimulus is played and the creature changes its color depending on the type of stimulu...

This work presents a software methodology used to implement artiicial animated creatures. The proposed architecture deals with dynamics and kinematics issues and provides a well structured way to control the creature resources. Three artiicial creatures with diierent sen-sors/actuators/dynamics characteristics show the versatility of the architecture.\Roger-the-Crab" simulates a crab-like creat...

This paper provides a basis for investigating “The Origin of Artificial Species,” as a robot can be considered as an artificial creature. To design an artificial creature, its general internal architecture is presented and its artificial chromosomes are proposed as its essential components. Rity as an artificial creature is developed in a virtual world of PC to test the world’s first robotic “c...

Kirsh, D., Today the earwig, tomorrow man?, Artificial Intelligence 47 (1991) 161-184. A startling amount of intelligent activity can be controlled without reasoning or thought. By tuning the perceptual system to task relevant properties a creature can cope with relatively sophisticated environments without concepts. There is a limit, however, to how far a creature without concepts can go. Rod ...

In this article I distinguish the notion of there being something it is like to be a certain kind of creature from that of there being something it is like to have a certain kind of experience. Work on consciousness has typically dealt with the latter while employing the language of the former. I propose several ways of analyzing what it is like to be a certain kind of creature and find problem...

Recent work has investigated children’s developing understanding of the anatomical locus of identity. In two studies, we extend this work by exploring the role of the mind as opposed to the brain in children’s conceptualization of identity. In Experiment 1, an analysis of natural language indicated that adults use the term mind more frequently than the term brain with reference to identity-rela...

It is to the advantage of a thinking creature to be aware of knowledge and thought and to be able to reason about them. If the creature has to interact with other thinking creatures, then reasoning about their mental processes is often necessary to understand and predict their behavior. Even if the creature is alone, stranded on a desert island, the ability to reason about its own mental life w...

Intuitively it has seemed to many that our concepts conscious state and conscious creature are sharp rather than vague, that they can have no borderline cases. On the other hand, many who take conscious states to be identical to, or realized by, complex physical states are committed to the vagueness of those concepts. In the paper I argue that conscious state and conscious creature are sharp by...