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Models of complexity: The example of emotions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2002

Catherine Belzung
Affiliation:
EA 3248 Psychobiologie des émotions, UFR Sciences et Techniques, Université F. Rabelais, Parc Grandmont, Tours F-37200, FranceBelzung@univ-tours.fr
Catherine Chevalley
Affiliation:
Département de Philosophie, Centre d'Etudes Supérieures de la Renaissance, Université F. Rabelais, Tours F-37000, FranceChevalley@univ-tours.fr

Abstract

Using the example of the difficulties which emerge when trying to model complex behaviors – such as emotional expression – that result from stochastic interactions between different components, we argue that biorobotics may well describe one possible evolution of certain features of a biological system, but cannot pretend to be a simulation of the whole behavior of the system.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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