Robots and Representations

Abstract

The design of complex interactive robots inherently yields a form of representation — an interactive form. Interactive representation is, arguably, the foundational form of representation from which all others are derived. It constitutes the emergence of representational truth value for the system itself, a criterion not addressed in current literature. There is a form of representation that arises naturally in the design of complex interactive systems — robots. This form arguably constitutes an emergence of the fundamental form of representation, out of which increasingly complex forms are constructed and derived. Furthermore, this form of representation naturally satisfies an essential metaepistemological criterion for original representation: system