CGSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Distributed Cognition, Sensory Memory, Operant Conditioning
28 Nov 2016
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A cognitive system is the system in which an agent perceives the outside world around that agent. In the perception phase, it turns things from the environment into meaningful internal representations. In the action phase, it turns theses perceptions into a physical changes on the environment. The human mind works by perceiving the outside environment by using their sensory organs that include their eyes, ears, nose, and senses on their skin. Once processed, these perceptions are turned into actions using our bodies - these actions are meaningful physical changes on the world. The robotic mind works much like the human mind in the sense that they still perceive and process information to produce and action, although instead of using sensory organs and a body, robots use sensors and actuators. Robots perceive the world through using their sensors to understand the environment around them an example of these sensors would be light sensors to help perceive light inputs.
