Buid Yourself a Cylon

If You are unfamiliar with Battlestar Galactica You might find this book very interesting. If , on the contrary You do know who Adama is - as you should-- then You might feel a bit "worried". GOOD !! reason the more to read this fascinating book. Remember the Cylons are robots with a plan....so read it now to learn to know your future opponents even better. But please ......do not tell them You read this here. They are kind a...eradicals.. This book presents practical design guidelines for the creation of non-numeric, autonomous cognitive machines, examining in detail component parts, realization principles and providing real-world examples for designers, researchers and advanced students in the field. Haikonen starts with an introduction to the topic of cognitive machines before moving on to examine associative neural networks, including a look at the limitations of traditional neural associators. Following this, basic circuit assemblies are described, as a building block for systems introduced later in the book. The next chapter presents perceptory processes required to understand the cognitive system, leading to a discussion of motion perception, setting out how motors and moving parts can be interfaced with the associative neural system in order that fluent motion based on perceived affordances can be achieved without numeric computations. The final chapters focus on the increasingly complex issues related to cognitive machines, such as the concept of machine emotions and ‘natural’ language in robot brains. The last chapter explains how all of these component parts are related to conscious machines.