Pfeifer, R. [ps.gz 1Mb] [pdf 3Mb] (1996) Building "Fungus Eaters": Design Principles of Autonomous Agents. In Animals to Animats, Volume 4 (SAB96), eds. Maes, Mataric, Meyer, Pollack, Wilson. MIT Press. 3-12.
When reading this paper consider the discussion questions:
Can the design principles be ranked in terms of their importance for building autonomous robots: what is/are the most fundamental for adaptive behaviour?
Does Pfeifer's approach potentially give insight to study of human cognition? In other words, can this type of approach scale up from relatively simple to more complex cognition?