creators_name: Edmonds, Bruce creators_name: Dautenhahn, Kerstin type: confpaper datestamp: 1999-04-01 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:17 metadata_visibility: show title: The Contribution of Society to the Construction of Individual Intelligence ispublished: unpub subjects: bio-socio subjects: cog-psy subjects: comp-sci-art-intel subjects: comp-sci-complex-theory subjects: comp-sci-robot subjects: ling-prag subjects: phil-mind subjects: soc-psy full_text_status: public abstract: It is argued that society is a crucial factor in the construction of individual intelligence. In other words that it is important that intelligence is socially situated in an analogous way to the physical situation of robots. Evidence that this may be the case is taken from developmental linguistics, the social intelligence hypothesis, the complexity of society, the need for self-reflection and autism. The consequences for the development of artificial social agents is briefly considered. Finally some challenges for research into socially situated intelligence are highlighted. date: 1998 date_type: published refereed: FALSE citation: Edmonds, Bruce and Dautenhahn, Kerstin (1998) The Contribution of Society to the Construction of Individual Intelligence. [Conference Paper] (Unpublished) document_url: http://cogprints.org/802/1/edmondsA4.ps document_url: http://cogprints.org/802/5/edmonds.pdf