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Book Self Organizing Natural Intelligence

Download or read book Self Organizing Natural Intelligence written by Myrna Estep and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-12-26 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings new scientific methods to intelligence research that is still under the influence of 19th century single causal theory and method. The author describes a rigorous and exhaustive classification of natural intelligence while demonstrating a more adequate scientific and mathematical approach than current statistical and psychometric approaches construct to shore up the out-dated and misused IQ hypothetical. The author demonstrates the superiority of a highly developed multidisciplinary-theory models view of intelligence.

Book Self Organizing Natural Intelligence

Download or read book Self Organizing Natural Intelligence written by Myrna Estep and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-10-18 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings new scientific methods to intelligence research that is still under the influence of 19th century single causal theory and method. The author describes a rigorous and exhaustive classification of natural intelligence while demonstrating a more adequate scientific and mathematical approach than current statistical and psychometric approaches construct to shore up the out-dated and misused IQ hypothetical. The author demonstrates the superiority of a highly developed multidisciplinary-theory models view of intelligence.

Book A Theory of Immediate Awareness

Download or read book A Theory of Immediate Awareness written by M. Estep and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is multi- and interdisciplinary in both scope and content. It draws upon philosophy, the neurosciences, psychology, computer science, and engineering in efforts to resolve fundamental issues about the nature of immediate awareness. Approximately the first half of the book is addressed to historical approaches to the question whether or not there is such a thing as immediate awareness, and if so, what it might be. This involves reviewing arguments that one way or another have been offered as answers to the question or ways of avoiding it. It also includes detailed discussions of some complex questions about the part immediate awareness plays in our over-all natural intelligence. The second half of the book addresses intricate and complex issues involved in the computability of immediate awareness as it is found in simple, ordinary things human beings know how to do, as weIl as in some highly extraordinary things some know how to do. Over the past 2,500 years, human culture has discovered, created, and built very powerful tools for recognizing, classifying, and utilizing patterns found in the natural world. The most powerful of those tools is mathematics, the language of nature. The natural phenomenon of human knowing, of natural intelligence generally, is a very richly textured set of patterns that are highly complex, dynamic, self-organizing, and adaptive.

Book Manufacturing Intelligence for Industrial Engineering  Methods for System Self Organization  Learning  and Adaptation

Download or read book Manufacturing Intelligence for Industrial Engineering Methods for System Self Organization Learning and Adaptation written by Zhou, Zude and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2010-03-31 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book focuses on the latest innovations in the process of manufacturing in engineering"--Provided by publisher.

Book Self Organization in Biological Systems

Download or read book Self Organization in Biological Systems written by Scott Camazine and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The synchronized flashing of fireflies at night. The spiraling patterns of an aggregating slime mold. The anastomosing network of army-ant trails. The coordinated movements of a school of fish. Researchers are finding in such patterns--phenomena that have fascinated naturalists for centuries--a fertile new approach to understanding biological systems: the study of self-organization. This book, a primer on self-organization in biological systems for students and other enthusiasts, introduces readers to the basic concepts and tools for studying self-organization and then examines numerous examples of self-organization in the natural world. Self-organization refers to diverse pattern formation processes in the physical and biological world, from sand grains assembling into rippled dunes to cells combining to create highly structured tissues to individual insects working to create sophisticated societies. What these diverse systems hold in common is the proximate means by which they acquire order and structure. In self-organizing systems, pattern at the global level emerges solely from interactions among lower-level components. Remarkably, even very complex structures result from the iteration of surprisingly simple behaviors performed by individuals relying on only local information. This striking conclusion suggests important lines of inquiry: To what degree is environmental rather than individual complexity responsible for group complexity? To what extent have widely differing organisms adopted similar, convergent strategies of pattern formation? How, specifically, has natural selection determined the rules governing interactions within biological systems? Broad in scope, thorough yet accessible, this book is a self-contained introduction to self-organization and complexity in biology--a field of study at the forefront of life sciences research.

Book Darwin s Unfinished Business

Download or read book Darwin s Unfinished Business written by Simon G. Powell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-12-22 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking interpretation of evolution as the work of Nature’s intelligence • Refutes the orthodox view of evolution as a mindless process driven by chance • Explains why context is more important than mutation in evolutionary innovation • Shows how, by recognizing Nature’s innovative and creative powers, we can overcome our social and environmental challenges with a new green science of evolution Darwin’s theory of evolution is undoubtedly one of the most important scientific ideas of the modern age, explaining the existence of both life and consciousness without recourse to divine intervention. Yet how do we interpret evolution? How do we evaluate the ability of Nature to engineer something as exquisite as the genetic code or the human brain? Could it be that evolution is an intelligent process? Is Nature smart? According to most scientists, the answer is no. While humanity may be intelligent and purposeful, the natural processes that crafted us are deemed to be devoid of such attributes. In a radical move away from orthodoxy, Simon G. Powell extends Darwin’s vision by showing that evolution is not just about the survival of the fittest but rather the survival of clever and sensible behavior. Revealing the importance of the context in which things evolve, he explores the intelligent learning process behind natural selection. Rich with examples of the incredibly complex plants, animals, insects, and marine life designed by Nature--from the carnivorous Venus flytrap and the fungus-farming leafcutter ant to the symbiotic microbes found inside the common cow--he shows Nature as a whole to be a system of self-organizing intelligence in which life and consciousness were always destined to emerge. Examining the origins of life and the failure of artificial intelligence to compete with natural intelligence, he explains how our scientifically narrow-minded views on intelligence are now acting as a barrier to our own evolution. As Darwin’s unfinished business comes to light and Nature’s intelligence is embraced, we learn that Nature’s agenda is not simply the replication of genetic matter but of expanding consciousness. By working with Nature’s creative and innovative powers instead of against them, we can address today’s social and environmental challenges with a new green science of evolution.

Book Relational Thinking Styles and Natural Intelligence  Assessing Inference Patterns for Computational Modeling

Download or read book Relational Thinking Styles and Natural Intelligence Assessing Inference Patterns for Computational Modeling written by Chiasson, Phyllis and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book explores a specific set of intelligence theories, unifying and quantifying to create a verifiable model of various inferencing habits"--Provided by publisher.

Book Self Organizing Architectures

Download or read book Self Organizing Architectures written by Danny Weyns and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The LNCS series reports state-of-the-art results in computer science research, development, and education, at a high level and in both printed and electronic form. Enjoying tight cooperation with the R&D community, with numerous individuals, as well as with prestigious organizations and societies, LNCS has grown into the most comprehensive computer science research forum available. The scope of LNCS, including its subseries LNAI and LNBI, spans the whole range of computer science and information technology including interdisciplinary topics in a variety of application fields.

Book Proceedings of International Scientific Conference on Telecommunications  Computing and Control

Download or read book Proceedings of International Scientific Conference on Telecommunications Computing and Control written by Nikita Voinov and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-04-28 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a platform for academics and practitioners for sharing innovative results, approaches, developments, and research projects in computer science and information technology, focusing on the latest challenges in advanced computing and solutions introducing mathematical and engineering approaches. The book presents discussions in the area of advances and challenges of modern computer science, including telecommunications and signal processing, machine learning and artificial intelligence, intelligent control systems, modeling and simulation, data science and big data, data visualization and graphics systems, distributed, cloud and high-performance computing, and software engineering. The papers included are presented at TELECCON 2019 organized by Peter the Great St. Petersburg University during November 18–19, 2019.

Book Knowledge Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems

Download or read book Knowledge Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems written by Vasile Palade and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-04-08 with total page 1531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2.1 Text Summarization “Text summarization is the process of distilling the most important information from a source (or sources) to produce an abridged version for a particular user (or users) and task (or tasks)” [3]. Basic and classical articles in text summarization appear in “Advances in automatic text summarization” [3]. A literature survey on information extraction and text summarization is given by Zechner [7]. In general, the process of automatic text summarization is divided into three stages: (1) analysis of the given text, (2) summarization of the text, (3) presentation of the summary in a suitable output form. Titles, abstracts and keywords are the most common summaries in Academic papers. Usually, the title, the abstract and the keywords are the first, second, and third parts of an Academic paper, respectively. The title usually describes the main issue discussed in the study and the abstract presents the reader a short description of the background, the study and its results. A keyword is either a single word (unigram), e.g.: ‘learning', or a collocation, which means a group of two or more words, representing an important concept, e.g.: ‘machine learning', ‘natural language processing'. Retrieving collocations from text was examined by Smadja [5] and automatic extraction of collocations was examined by Kita et al. [1].

Book An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence

Download or read book An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence written by David W. Bates and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What would it mean to make a decision against the acceleration of automation and for humanity? In An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence, David W. Bates lays the groundwork for such a decision by rethinking the history of human cognition and its entanglements with technology. Tracing evolving lines of thought from the early modern period to the present, Bates confronts the intimate connection between autonomy and automaticity in how we have understood the capacities of the human mind. At the heart of this entanglement is a total mechanistic understanding of nature that began in the seventeenth century and saw the body as machine, the nervous system as control mechanism, and the brain as the center of cognition. Reading varied thinkers from Descartes to Kant to Turing, Bates reveals how new ideas and experiences reconfigured the ways in which the automaticity of the body could be linked with technical systems, while at the same time the mind could still create the space for autonomy. The result is a new theorization of the human in which the human, dependent on technology, produces itself as an artificial automation that has no "natural" origin"--

Book What Comes After Money

Download or read book What Comes After Money written by Daniel Pinchbeck and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people believe that money is organic and inevitable; we forget that money is just a tool created to perform certain functions. But just as computer programmers drop out-of date tools and pick up better ones as soon as they become available, we might switch from bank-financed currency to a more equitable method for transferring goods and services. As an operating system for society, money needs a major upgrade. What Comes After Money? offers a wealth of alternatives to the current monetary system. In this anthology of essays drawn from the popular web magazine Reality Sandwich, 20 visionary thinkers explore the roots of the modern economic crisis and propose diverse solutions: instituting local currencies; creating reputation or gift economies (based on historical and contemporary); introducing spirituality into the equation; and many more. Contributors include economist Bernard Leitaer, media theorist Douglas Rushkoff, musician Paul D. Miller (a.k.a. DJ Spooky), theoretical physicist Amit Goswami, Larry Harvey (founder of Burning Man), and Peter Lamborn Wilson (a.k.a. Hakim Bey). About the Imprint: EVOLVER EDITIONS promotes a new counterculture that recognizes humanity's visionary potential and takes tangible, pragmatic steps to realize it. EVOLVER EDITIONS explores the dynamics of personal, collective, and global change from a wide range of perspectives. EVOLVER EDITIONS is an imprint of North Atlantic Books and is produced in collaboration with Evolver, LLC.

Book Organizing Around Intelligence

Download or read book Organizing Around Intelligence written by Thow Yick Liang and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2004 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organizing Around Intelligence introduces a new mindset andawareness in leading and managing human organizations. This paradigmshift is vital as humankind enters the intelligence era (the knowledgeeconomy). Individual human beings are becoming better informed andeducated. They carry knowledge structures of very highquality. Consequently, their interaction dynamic is different and theyhave to be managed differently. The intelligent organization theorydiscussed in this book emphasizes the significance of focusing on thehuman thinking system and the orgmind as the primary strategy. Theapproach is to organize around intelligence and collectiveintelligence. Both the human organization and its interacting agentsare complex adaptive systems. The importance of awareness andmindfulness, as well as the intelligent person model, is alsopresented. This fresh leadership and management philosophy containsmany new concepts that are not known to human organizations today.

Book Educational Technology Beyond Content

Download or read book Educational Technology Beyond Content written by Brad Hokanson and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-04-09 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the outcome of a research symposium sponsored by the Association for Educational Communications and Technology [AECT]. Consisting of twenty-four chapters, including an introduction and conclusion, it argues that informational content should not be the main element of education, and that to provide more for learners, it is necessary to go beyond content and address other skills and capabilities. It also discusses the false premise that learning is complete when the information is known, not when learners seek more: their own directions, answers, and ideas. The authors assert that the ability to synthesize, solve problems and generate ideas is not based on specific content, although education often focuses solely on teaching content. Further, they state that content can be separated from the learning process and that instructional design and educational technology must be about the skills, habits, and beliefs to be learned.

Book Learning  Design  and Technology

Download or read book Learning Design and Technology written by J. Michael Spector and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-11-15 with total page 4144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The multiple, related fields encompassed by this Major Reference Work represent a convergence of issues and topics germane to the rapidly changing segments of knowledge and practice in educational communications and technology at all levels and around the globe. There is no other comparable work that is designed not only to gather vital, current, and evolving information and understandings in these knowledge segments but also to be updated on a continuing basis in order to keep pace with the rapid changes taking place in the relevant fields. The Handbook is composed of substantive (5,000 to 15,000 words), peer-reviewed entries that examine and explicate seminal facets of learning theory, research, and practice. It provides a broad range of relevant topics, including significant developments as well as innovative uses of technology that promote learning, performance, and instruction. This work is aimed at researchers, designers, developers, instructors, and other professional practitioners.

Book Novel Approaches in Cognitive Informatics and Natural Intelligence

Download or read book Novel Approaches in Cognitive Informatics and Natural Intelligence written by Wang, Yingxu and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2008-12-31 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the latest advancements in cognitive informatics and natural intelligence. Covers the five areas of cognitive informatics, natural intelligence, autonomic computing, knowledge science, and relevant development.

Book Bio Inspired Self Organizing Robotic Systems

Download or read book Bio Inspired Self Organizing Robotic Systems written by Yan Meng and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-05-11 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Self-organizing approaches inspired from biological systems, such as social insects, genetic, molecular and cellular systems under morphogenesis, and human mental development, has enjoyed great success in advanced robotic systems that need to work in dynamic and changing environments. Compared with classical control methods for robotic systems, the major advantages of bio-inspired self-organizing robotic systems include robustness, self-repair and self-healing in the presence of system failures and/or malfunctions, high adaptability to environmental changes, and autonomous self-organization and self-reconfiguration without a centralized control. “Bio-inspired Self-organizing Robotic Systems” provides a valuable reference for scientists, practitioners and research students working on developing control algorithms for self-organizing engineered collective systems, such as swarm robotic systems, self-reconfigurable modular robots, smart material based robotic devices, unmanned aerial vehicles, and satellite constellations.