We will talk only about machines with very simple internal structures, too simple in fact to be interesting from the point of view of mechanical or e… - Valentino Braitenberg

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We will talk only about machines with very simple internal structures, too simple in fact to be interesting from the point of view of mechanical or electrical engineering. Interest arises, rather, when we look at these machines or vehicles as if they were animals, in a natural environment. We will be tempted, then, to use psychological language in describing their behavior. And yet we know very well that there is nothing in these vehicles that we have not put there ourselves.

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About Valentino Braitenberg

Valentino Braitenberg (June 18, 1926 – September 9, 2011) was an Italian neuroscientist and cyberneticist, best known for the 1984 book Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology.

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Alternative Names: Valentino von Braitenberg Valentin von Braitenberg Valentin Braitenberg

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