Time-Situated Agency: Active Logic and Intention Formation
Michael L. Anderson, Darsana P. Josyula, Yoshi Okamoto, Don Perlis · 2002
In recentyears, embodied cognitiveagents have become a central research focus in Cognitive Science. We suggest that there are at least three aspects of embodiment--- physical, social and temporal---whichmust be treated simultaneously to make possible a realistic implementation of agency. In this paper we detail the ways in whichattention to the temporal embodiment of a cognitiveagent (perhaps the most neglected aspect of embodiment) can enhance the abilityofanagenttoactintheworld, both in itself, and also by supporting more robust integrations with the physical and social worlds.