Material Mind and Enrobotment: Living Humans vs Robots

Scientists of the mind have always sought to understand how human beings grow and analyse the visual and acoustic information, move their body, reason, learn, memorise, forget, develop emotion, and build consciousness. There are functions that neuroscience examine. Scientists have also used materials to try to simulate life artificially. There is no disruption but continuity between these approaches. The aim of the talk is to discuss the relationship between neuroscience and robotics and reflect on the brain-mind-machine concept, on its internalised and externalised expressions. The ambition is to understand the enactment from the real to artificial world is rendered possible via robots. Robots are therefore considered oeuvres de l'esprit (i.e. creations of the mind). Just as importantly, what has been internalised and symbolised has been simulated and externalised. The result is that life reproduction via robots is the result of the interaction between external information (i.e. objects including their shadows) and internal interpretations: enrobotment. The construction of animate robots and humanoid robots in particular signifies that they have been incorporated into the mind. This may be the continuum from Deus ex Machina to Conscientia ex Machina.