A Missing Link in Cybernetics : Logic and Continuity

Alex M. Andrew

ISBN 10: 1441925848 / ISBN 13: 9781441925848

Edité par Springer New York, Springer US, 2010

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - In this book I argue that a reason for the limited success of various studies under the general heading of cybernetics is failure to appreciate the importance of con- nuity, in a simple metrical sense of the term. It is with particular, but certainly not exclusive, reference to the Arti cial Intelligence (AI) effort that the shortcomings of established approaches are most easily seen. One reason for the relative failure of attempts to analyse and model intelligence is the customary assumption that the processing of continuous variables and the manipulation of discrete concepts should be considered separately, frequently with the assumption that continuous processing plays no part in thought. There is much evidence to the contrary incl- ing the observation that the remarkable ability of people and animals to learn from experience nds similar expression in tasks of both discrete and continuous nature and in tasks that require intimate mixing of the two. Such tasks include everyday voluntary movement while preserving balance and posture, with competitive games and athletics offering extreme examples. Continuous measures enter into many tasks that are usually presented as discrete. In tasks of pattern recognition, for example, there is often a continuous measure of the similarity of an imposed pattern to each of a set of paradigms, of which the most similar is selected. The importance of continuity is also indicated by the fact that adjectives and adverbs in everyday verbal communication have comparative and superlative forms.

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• Titre: A Missing Link in Cybernetics : Logic and Continuity
• Éditeur: Springer New York, Springer US
• Date de parution: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1441925848
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781441925848
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 235 L x 155 H x 9 P (en millimètres) 235 millimètres de largeur par 155 millimètres de hauteur par 9 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 242 grammes

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Synopsis

Unconventional and challenging viewpoints are presented in this book that will be of interest to researchers in AI, psychology, cybernetics and systems science. The book systematically advances an alternative approach to analyze and model intelligence.