Valentino Braitenberg

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Valentino Braitenberg (sometimes referred to as Valentin; born 18. June 1926 in Bolzano, Italy; died 9. September 2011 in Tübingen, Germany) was an Italian neuroscientist and cyberneticist. He was former director at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany.

He was most famous for the book Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology, in which he described how hypothetical analog vehicles (a combination of sensors, actuators and their interconnections), though simple in design, can exhibit behaviors akin to aggression, love, foresight and optimism.^[1]

Literature

Hosp, Inga; Schüz, Almut; Braitenberg, Zeno, eds. (2011). Tentakel des Geistes. Begegnungen mit Valentin Braitenberg. Arunda 81. Bolzano: Edition Raetia. ISBN 978-88-7283-403-9.

References

↑ http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/~beall/vehicles.pdf

External links

Valentino Braitenberg's homepage at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
Short memories of Valentino

A software Braitenberg vehicle simulator

v t e Subfields of and scientists involved in cybernetics

Subfields	Polycontexturality Second-order cybernetics Catastrophe theory Connectionism Control theory Decision theory Information theory Semiotics Synergetics Biological cybernetics Biosemiotics Biomedical cybernetics Biorobotics Computational neuroscience Homeostasis Management cybernetics Medical cybernetics New Cybernetics Neurocybernetics Sociocybernetics Emergence Artificial intelligence

Cyberneticists	Igor Aleksander William Ross Ashby Anthony Stafford Beer Claude Bernard Ludwig von Bertalanffy Valentin Braitenberg Gordon S. Brown Walter Bradford Cannon Heinz von Foerster Charles François Jay Wright Forrester Jacque Fresco Buckminster Fuller Ernst von Glasersfeld Francis Heylighen Erich von Holst Cliff Joslyn Stuart Kauffman Sergei P. Kurdyumov Niklas Luhmann Warren McCulloch Humberto Maturana Talcott Parsons Gordon Pask Walter Pitts Alfred Radcliffe-Brown Robert Trappl Valentin Turchin Jakob von Uexküll Francisco Varela Frederic Vester Charles Geoffrey Vickers Stuart Umpleby John N. Warfield William Grey Walter Kevin Warwick Norbert Wiener Anthony Wilden

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 91646509 LCCN: n84003939 ISNI: 0000 0001 1685 2492 GND: 1015138853 BNF: cb120639795 NDL: 00463679

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Name	Braitenberg, Valentino
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Date of death	2011
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