Underlying most of the IWANN calls for papers is the aim to reassume some of the motivations of the groundwork stages of biocybernetics and the later bionics formulations and to try to reconsider the present value of two basic questions. The?rstoneis: Whatdoesneurosciencebringintocomputation(thenew bionics)? That is to say, how can we seek inspiration in biology? Titles such as computational intelligence, arti?cial neural nets, genetic algorithms, evolutionary hardware, evolutive architectures, embryonics, sensory n- romorphic systems, and emotional robotics are representatives of the present...

Underlying most of the IWANN calls for papers is the aim to reassume some of the motivations of the groundwork stages of biocybernetics and the later bionics formulations and to try to reconsider the present value of two basic questions. The?rstoneis: Whatdoesneurosciencebringintocomputation(thenew bionics)? That is to say, how can we seek inspiration in biology? Titles such as computational intelligence, arti?cial neural nets, genetic algorithms, evolutionary hardware, evolutive architectures, embryonics, sensory n- romorphic systems, and emotional robotics are representatives of the present...