Neosentience : the benevolence engine / Bill Seaman and Otto E. Rössler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Seaman, Bill.

Contributor:

Rössler, Otto E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Artificial intelligence.

Conscious automata.

Benevolence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (290 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, U.K. : Intellect, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Coined by artist and media researcher Bill Seaman, "neosentience" describes a new branch of scientific inquiry related to artificial intelligence. This volume explores the groundbreaking work of Seaman and chaos physicist Otto E. Rossler in exploring the potential of an intelligent robotic entity possessed of a form of sentience that ever-more-closely resembles that of a human being. Individual chapters approach the concept from a range of disciplines, including psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, and the arts. Neosentience is a burgeoning area of interest, and this book encourages readers

Contents:

Front Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; A Note from the Authors; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Microchapters:; Introduction - Bridging; Nonlinear; Descartes; Karel Capek; Roy Ascott - Behaviourist Art and the Cybernetic Vision; Neosentience - A New Branch of Scientific and Poetic Inquiry; The N_S.E.N.T.I.E.N.T. Paradigm; Identity - When is it Mine?; A.I. Background; von Foerster - Circuitry Clues to Platonic Ideation; von Neumann and the AEC1; The Scale of Computers; Norbert Wiener and Gregory Bateson; Margaret Mead - Cybernetics of Cybernetics

Heinz von Foerster and the Biological Computer Laboratory Macy Conferences; Ross Ashby; Rodney Brooks; Ray Kurzweil; Bill Joy - The Dystopian Position; History and Mythology; Anaximander; Casti's Emergence; John Holland; Neumannology; Deb Roy; Recursive Evolution; Introduction to the Brain Equation; An Early Computational Approach to "Space" - the Antikythera Mechanism; Pattern Flows; Qualia As Emotional Force Triggers; Color and Chaos; Memory and its Relation to Perception in an N-Dimensional Space; Roger Shepard; Meaning/Becoming; Time

Siegfried Zielinski - Variantology or Archeology of the Media The Brain Equation; Marvin Minsky; One Now; Global Brain; Xpero and Dörner; (Re)sensing the Observer - Open Order Cybernetics; Deviation-amplifying Mutual Causal Processes; Gödel Boundary Overstepped; Red Hole - Hole Filled with Light or Color; The Angel of Qualia; The Russell, Bateson, Pavlov Paradox; Bateson - The Double Bind Theory; What is a Question?; Asimo; Asimov's 3 Laws - Some Observations by Rodney Brooks Concerning the Laws and Reality; Cantor's Diagonals; Bruno Marchal; Norbert Wiener - Mathematics; The Pattern Game

The World is Not Separate from UsA Linguistics of Pattern Flows; Computer Code - New Ideas Approaching Relational Pattern Recognition; Michael Arbib; Peirce; Char Davies - VR; The World Generator - Generative VR; The Thought body Environment; Toward an Electrochemical Computer; An Informed Approach to the Creation of an Electrochemical Computer; Gordon Pask - Physical Analogues to the Growth of a Concept; Maverick Machines - Pask; Abduction; Protein Computers - Pask; Pandaka Pygmaea; Self-knowledge - David Finkelstein; Non-two-value Logic; 1893 - George Moore's Steam Man; Nonsense logic

Peirce - Ideas Surrounding the First General-purpose Relay Computer Giulio Camillo (1480-1544); The Case of the Brains in a Vat - Hilary Putnam; Well-stirred Computers; Ostwald's Living Fluid; Zeeman - The Construction of a Pseudo Continuum; Well-stirred Life on Jupiter; The Great Everett/Many Branches Theory; Many Worlds/Many Minds; Everett States; The Machine has Perceived A; Many-consciousness Interpretation; The Undivided Universe - An Ontological Interpretation of Quantum Theory; The Cut Through the Neosentient; Murray Gell-Mann - The Quark and the Jaguar; The Aharonov-Bohm Effect

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Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-283-37060-3

9786613370600

1-84150-603-6

OCLC:

769344353