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From: halabe@ils.nwu.edu (Daniel Halabe)
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Subject: Re: New Book Announcement
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Date: 24 Oct 90 15:26:28 GMT
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In article <1990Oct18.191016.18407@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> 
beer@cthulhu.ces.cwru.edu writes:
> Drawing upon recent critiques of AI, this book argues that the
> universal ability of animals to flexibly interact with their
> environments is more fundamental to intelligent behavior than such
> uniquely human skills as language and conscious deliberation.  This
> book also presents a new approach to the design of autonomous agents,
> called computational neuroethology, which is concerned with simulating
> the neuronal control of behavior in simpler animals.

This sounds similar to the subject of a talk I once heard given by Allen 
Kay about his work on "Artificial Life".  It was very interesting, and 
this book sounds fascinating.

My question is this:  What sort of background is the text appropriate for? 
Is it very technical? If so, in what field?

Thanks,
Daniel Halabe