Missing Link in Cybernetics Logic and Continuity

Name: Missing Link in Cybernetics Logic and Continuity
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ISBN: 9780387751634

ISBN-10: 0387751637

ISBN-13: 9780387751634

Edition: 2009

Authors: Alex M. Andrew, A. M. Andrew, International Federation for Systems Research Staff

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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.

Book details

Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Springer New York
Publication date: 3/4/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 139
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.914
Language: English



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