This software and accompanying illustrated manual will allow the user to run three prototypes from the book Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology, by Valentino Braitenberg. The programs are Love and Hate, Growth and Decay, and Rabbit Run. The software can be run on a Macintosh TM computer with 512K or more memory.
For further information, users will want to consult appropriate chapters in Braitenberg's book of imaginative thought experiments or "vehicles," a series of hypothetical, self-operating machines that exhibit increasingly intricate if not always successful or civilized "behavior." In a section of extensive biological notes, Braitenberg locates many elements of his fantasy in current brain research.
For further information, users will want to consult appropriate chapters in Braitenberg's book of imaginative thought experiments or "vehicles," a series of hypothetical, self-operating machines that exhibit increasingly intricate if not always successful or civilized "behavior." In a section of extensive biological notes, Braitenberg locates many elements of his fantasy in current brain research.
