Remembering, Rehearsal and Empathy - Towards a Social and Embodied Cognitive Psychology for Artifacts.

Abstract

This paper is meant as a basis for discussion towards a framework for cognitive architectures integrating remembering, rehearsal, language and empathy. It describes the programmatic background of our concrete work on intelligent autonomous agents. The goal is to motivate a common framework which should inspire research on `artificial cognition' for autonomous robots as well as investigations on cognition in humans or other animals. 1 Introduction Our professional background are biology and artificial intelligence and we are mainly interested in the construction of intelligent autonomous agents based on biological and psychological findings and models. This paper outlines our research framework which grew out of considerations on cognition for artifacts, although we are aware that the successful implementation of these ideas is still a future goal. Instead of reviewing intensively literature of cognitive science and escpecially of cognitive psychology we focus on some points which are ...