The biomimetic perspective on cognitive science
Many of the tasks resistant to rule-based modeling are those shared with other organisms
- Spatial navigation, sensory-motor coordination and balance, recognition of objects, path planning, obstacle avoidance, learning from experience, selective attention,
Human intelligence rests on a foundation of long evolutionary history, some of which is shared by other organisms
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In contrast, humans also perform many tasks apparently automatically and apparently without effort. These tasks include recognition, spatial navigation, sensory-motor coordination and balance, recognition of objects, path planning, obstacle avoidance, learning from experience, selective attention, anticipation, and effective response to changing environmental conditions. These tasks are technologically rather mundane, but they appear nonetheless to be tasks that require rather sophisticated processes. For the most part, cognitive scientists have not yet developed fully effective theories of their performance and they tend to be tasks that are performed by both human and nonhuman species.