Organization | Pages: Interactive modules in blue Future pages in green | Annotation | ||
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Title Page | ||||
Notice and Disclaimer | ||||
Preface | ||||
Introduction to the research study | ||||
Framework for the research study | ||||
Introduction to the methodology underlying the research | ||||
Information flow for innate skills: From DNA to the brain, from the stored skill to action, perception, and out-bound communication | ||||
Information representation & processing for basic action | Inner control of joint angles and the skeleton | |||
Part 1: The basics of posing and action with an actor on a stage | basic information processing for poses and simple action | |||
Part 2: The basics of perception: gravity and vision | basic information representations for visual perception of poses | |||
The basics of out-bound communication | basic information broadcasting as simple action | |||
The consequences of basic action in the world | Visible motion of the skeleton | |||
Part 3: The physics for locating an actor on a stage | external, real world parameters relating the actor to the stage | |||
The physics of out-bound communication | simple actions also broadcast information | |||
simple, probably innate, skilled actions | Two examples of simple skilled actions that integrate perception | |||
Part 4: Simple behavioural mimicry - same species | minimal information processing for mimicking poses and simple action | |||
Part 5: Spontaneous action such as curiosity-driven exploration | information processing for experimenting by moving in different directions with or without planning | |||
simple skilled actions that may involve prediction and planning | internal processing (simulation?) above and beyond playback of skilled action components | |||
Part 6: Following a target or chasing prey | information processing for directions with or without simple prediction and planning | |||
'Inner' information storage and transmission | ||||
The representation of complex skills | Choreographing skilled action with an 'inner language' | |||
The components of skilled action | action, objects, time, direction | |||
one-way and two-way information flow | from DNA to action, and learning | |||
compression | information storage | |||
Part 11: An 'inner language' for the information processing of skills | information representation for innate skills, suitable for DNA | |||
The relationship between evolution, skilled action, and language | an older points and pictures discussion on language and evolution (static) | |||
Multi-individual skills requiring inter-individual communication as an additional integrated component of skilled action | ||||
'outer communication' for skills requiring coordinated action | Using behavioural signals, vision, and sound: Adding communication to perception and action | |||
One-way communication such as alerting and advertising | warning, mate selection | |||
Two-way communication for coordination | timing, positioning, role selection | |||
Structured apprenticeship and schooling | assigned roles for leader/master/teacher and student | |||
Methodology | ||||
Requirements, constraints, and feasibility | studies for the design of complex system | |||
key design risks | incremental design and prototyping | |||
Images for the outline in the form of a TOC | Xref | |||