This edited volume is about how unprejudiced approaches to real human cognition can improve the design of AI. It covers many aspects of human cognition and across 12 chapters the reader can explore multiple approaches about the complexities of human cognitive skills and reasoning, always guided by experts from different but complimentary academic fields. A central concept is explained: blended cognition, the natural skill of human beings for combining constantly different heuristics during their several task-solving activities. Something that was sometimes observed like a problem as "bad reasoning", is now the central key for the understanding of the richness, adaptability and creativity of human cognition. The topic of this book connects in a significant way with the disciplines of psychology, neurology, anthropology, philosophy, logics, engineering, logics, and AI. In a nutshell: understanding better humans for designing better machines.

Any person with interests on natural and artificial reasoning should read this book as a primary source of inspiration and a way to achieve a critical thinking on these topics.

Inhalt

Preface Blended Cognition  Vincent C. Müller & Jordi Vallverdú

Philosophy
1.    Blended cognition. The robotic challenge
Jordi Vallverdú

2.    Manipulative Abduction, External Semiotic Anchors, and Blended Cognition
Lorenzo Magnani

3.    Practical Reasoning in the Deliberations of an Intelligent Autonomous Agent
Douglas Walton

4.    Blended Automation: The Language-Game of Psychoanalytic Automatism and Cybernetic Automata
Vassilis Galanos

Engineering
5.    Can our Robots rely on an Emotionally Charged Vision-for- Action? An Embodied Model for Neurorobotics
 Gabriele Ferretti & Eris Chinellato

6.    Modeling psycho-emotional states via neurosimulation of monoamine neuro-Transmitters
 Max Talanov, Alexey Leukhin, Fail Gafarov & Jordi Vallverdú

7.    Towards Conversation Envisioning for Cognitive Robots
Maryam Sadat Mirzaei,Qiang Zhang, Stef van der Struijk & Toyoaki Nishida

Psychology
8.    The blending of human and autonomous-machine cognition
Robert Earl Patterson and Robert G. Eggleston (USAF)

9.    Heuristics of Numerical Choice in Economic Contexts
Kay-Yut Chen & Daniel S.Levine

Anthropology
10.  Towards autonomous artificial agents? Proposal for a naturalistic activity-based model of (artificial) life -
Corentin Chanet & David Eubelen

 Logics
11.  Toward a Logic of Everyday Reasoning
Pei Wang

 Index