We would like to thank all the participants for this amazing workshop! DoS2017 WS@ICDL-EpiRob 2017

Conclusions

Link to presentation: goo.gl/gqMDyP

• The minimal self in the form of body ownership and agency seems to emerge from the interaction of the agent with the environment but there are also innate functions.
  
  
• To which extent does minimal self depend on social interaction? Can the self arise from mere object interaction? Can the self arise from individual action?
  
  
• Embodiment bottom-up rather plastic process of sensorimotor integration.
  
  
• There is a need of interdisciplinary collaboration to aproximate terminologies and experimental paradigms.
  
  
• Looking for the Turing test for the artificial Self.
  
  
• Predictive coding, forward/inverse models and inter-modal associations.
  
  
• Paradigm shift in robotics: (1) general sensorimotor integration, (2) refinement and plasticity, (3) Self/other distinction, (4) Interaction under uncertainty.

Roadmap

• Sparse results -> Documentation collection and sensorimotor database
• Interdisciplinary collaborations
• Empirical validation
• Special issue  (Combined: frontiers in neurorobotics, psychology cognition and computational neuroscience journals)
  Body Representations, Peripersonal Space, and the Self: Humans, Animals, Robots

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