Social Situatedness of Natural and Artificial Intelligence: Vygotsky and Beyond
Adaptive Behavior, 11 (2):
79-96 (2003)Abstract
The concept of `social situatedness', i.e. the idea that the development of
individual intelligence requires a social (and cultural) embedding, has
recently received much attention in cognitive science and artificial
intelligence research, in particular work on social or epigenetic robotics.
The work of Lev Vygotsky who put forward this view already in the
1920s has influenced the discussion to some degree, but still remains far
from well known. This paper therefore aims to give an overview of his
cognitive development theory and discuss its relation to more recent
work in primatology and socially situated artificial intelligence, in
particular humanoid robotics.
