Embodied intelligence: epistemological remarks on an emerging paradigm in the artificial intelligence debate
Nicola Di Stefano, Giampaolo Ghilardi · EPISTEMOLOGIA · 2013
A new paradigm about machine-design in robotics, currently defined as 'Embodied Intelligence', has recently been developed.Here we consider the debate on the relationship between the hand and the intellect, from the perspective of the history of philosophy, aiming at providing a more suitable understanding of this paradigm.The new bottom-up approach to design is deeply rooted in a new kind of empiricism, which tries to overcome issues connected with the previous approach strongly committed with the Artificial Intelligence (AI) debate and its origin.Since Turing's time, the AI debate showed a rationalistic bias which remained undisputed until now.The paradigm shift we are witnessing nowadays is a reply to that bias in order to achieve not only a better way to design robots, but also to understand some underlying epistemological remarks.