ABSTRACT
Interests in embodiedness and situatedness have increased in all disciplines of cognitive science. Such interests generally concern the complex interplay between robotic systems and their local environments. The gist in general is that in the systems internal representations can exist, by playing a two-fold role. On the one hand, the internal representations in the systems constitute descriptions of the world, and on the other, these representations serve as internal representations/codes to control those systems’ tight coupling agent-environment interactions. When the robot system observes, or initiates an action, those modules change their inherent energy and their condition lists of the environment. An action module initiates its action, when the energy flowing in the module goes beyond a certain threshold. Yet, the energy flowing in a certain module may go its threshold and hence need a fine-tuning of the energy flowing among certain relevant modules, and even a fine-tuning of the threshold itself.
