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5 Making an environment
76
History, ecology, environment 77
Adapting ecological niches 81
Construction and constitution 87
Notes 91
  6  What is an informational environment? 
92
Environmental information and the use of cognition 92
What informational environments are 96
How informational environments change 103
Note 106
PART II
Environments of intelligence
107
7 The extension of the extended mind
109
The extension of functional histories 110
The constitution of cognitive extensions 116
Constitutional matters 122
The art of coupling, basic and advanced 124
Notes 128
8 The nature of cognitive artefacts
130
Being guided by pictures 131
Cognitive artefacts and informational environments 136
Convergence and isomorphism 141
Notes 148
  9  The intelligence of environments 
149
Evolutionary and cognitive robotics 151
Embodied conversational agents and social robotics 155
Second Life 160
Mixed Reality Games 163
Augmented Reality 167
Naturalising the artificial 173
Notes 178
10  Afterthoughts on conceptual analysis and human nature 
180
A domain for conceptual analysis 181
A naturalist’s view of human nature and machines 187
Bibliography
195
Author Index
210
Subject Index
214