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A Missing Link in Cybernetics Logic and Continuity

Andrew, Alex M.; Andrew, A. M.; International Federation for Systems Research Staff
ISBN-10: 0387751637
ISBN-13: 9780387751634

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Presenting unconventional and challenging viewpoints with relevance fields such as AI, psychology, cybernetics and systems science, this text examines the current impasse in AI.
Preface
Cybernetics: Origins and Aims
Origins
Understanding
Theories
Neuroscience
Visual Pathways
Microtubule Computation
Memory
C fibres
Orange, New Jersey
Artificial Intelligence
Wider Applications
Appendix to
Chapter 1: Early History
Summary of Chapter 1
Where to Start?
Brains and Computers
Discrete Logic
Meaning of "Logic"
Laws of Form
Associative Recall
The Binding Problem
Models
Conditioned Reflex
Application to Process Control
Boxes
Learning Filters
Classification versus Tuning
Nontrivial Machines
Conclusion
Summary of Chapter 2
Continuous versus Discrete
The Continuous Environment
Catastrophe Theory and Dissipative Structures
Nervous System
Evolution and Learning
Near Misses
Logic
AI and Computers
The Ashby-Bellman Debate
Summary of Chapter 3
Adaptation, Self-Organisation, Learning
Adaptation in Continuous Environments
Even and Odd Objective Functions
Optimisation without a Model
Optimisation with a Model
Models
Error Decorrelation
Self-Organisation
JANET
Checkers
Pandemonium
Emergence of Concepts
Bacterial Chemotaxis
Daisyworld
Appendix to
Chapter 4: Statistics as Running Values
Running Values
Weighting Patterns
Exponential Smoothing
Digital Precision
Summary of Chapter 4
Backpropagation
Learning in Nets
Multilayer Operation
Local Goals
Significance Feedback
Evidence from Biology
Structured Feedback
Summary of Chapter 5
Self-Reference
Consciousness
Hierarchies
Everyday Self-Reference
Nontrivial Machines and Paradox
Godel's Incompleteness Theorem
Induction and Deduction
Double Bind and Creativity
Summary of Chapter 6
Fractal Intelligence
Is Intelligence Fractal
Elementary Exemplification
Fractal Intelligence
Summary of Chapter 7
Conclusions
Motivation
Is Artificial Intelligence Possible?
Probably Academic
Summary of Chapter 8
References
Index



Edition: 2009
Publisher: Springer London, Limited
Binding: Trade Cloth
Pages: 139
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.84 lbs.
Language: English

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