Neosentience : The Benevolence Engine.
Title:
Neosentience : The Benevolence Engine.
Author:
Seaman, Bill.
ISBN:
9781841506036
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (290 pages)
Contents:
FrontCover -- 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 Us -- A Linguistics of Pattern Flows -- Computer Code - New Ideas Approaching Relational Pattern Recognition -- Michael Arbib -- Peirce -- Char Davies - VR -- The World Generator - Generative VR -- The Thoughtbody 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 -- Assignment Conditions -- The World as Interface -- Discreteness and Continuum -- Different Definitions of the Observer -- Naked Mole Type Intelligence -- Special Sense Modalities and Equivalencies Across Minds -- Fulguration -- High-resolution Magnetic Senses - Hammer Head Shark -- Zhuangzi -- The Now -- Time Buffer - Temporal Fovea -- Brian Massumi -- Fractal Time -- Peter Cariani -- The Now Equation -- Dreams -- Chance is an Element of the Necessary -- Gödel Time Machine and the Illusion of Time -- Einstein -- Non-local Coupling -- Cooper Pair.
The Body is Simultaneously a Hierarchy and a Heterarchy. -- Who Needs Emotions? The Brain Meets the Robot -- Simple Languages - Deb Roy -- Micro-time Reversal -- Edward Fredkin -- Seven-level Scheme -- Time's Arrow -- Thinking is Physics -- Alfred Korzybski - Science and Sanity - New Theory of Language -- C. Andy Hilgartner -- The Second Force -- World Change Techniques -- Definitions of Life -- Niels Birbaumer -- Bell's Theorem and the Interface Question -- Hans Diebner -- New Sciences -- Reversible Ramifications -- Endonomadology - Endomonadology -- Kurt Lewin - Topological Psychology -- Bonding, Imprinting, and Other Lorenzes - Innate Releasing Mechanisms -- Behind the Mirror -- Ed Lorenz's Butterfly -- Single-spin Chemistry -- Spin-based Computers -- Hospitalism -- Artificial Ethology/Ethomathematics -- Bottom Up vs Top Down -- Innate and Acquired Releasing Mechanisms - Priming (Lorenz) -- Bonding Drive/Attachment Theory (John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth) -- The Invention of Benevolence as a Transcendence of Biology -- Natural Brains Artificially Produced -- McCulloch and Pitts' Neural Logical Calculus -- Is the Brain a Digital Computer? -- Jeff Hawkins - Hierarchical Temporal Memory -- James Olds -- W.R. Hess -- Kurt Gödel -- Peter Weibel -- Observing Systems (Molecular Ethology) -- Douglas Hofstadter -- Mirror Neurons/Mirror Competence -- A Neural Transmitter for Every Mood - Electrochemical Computers Revisited -- Pattern Flows: Notes Toward a Model for an Electrochemical Computer - The Thoughtbody Environment -- The Relation of the Body to an Embodied Electrochemical Computer -- Synthetic Qualia and Talia Predictably Arise as an Emergent "Inside Quality" of our System -- Candice B. Pert - Molecules of Emotion -- The MMM Machine.
The Physiognomic Side of Nature and its Spatial Relation to the Body -- Light Computer -- The Elephant Looking into it's Own Mouth (J. Plotnik, F. de Waal, and D. Reiss, Courtesy J. Plotnik) -- Andy Clark - Mind as Mash-up -- Plamen Simeonov -- The Creation of a New Techno-species -- The Invention of Benevolence -- Smile Theory (Don't Laugh!) -- Are We Making an Immortal? -- Mary Catherine Bateson Our Own Metaphor -- Analogical Computing (Hava T. Siegelmann and Steven Smale) -- Analog Chips (Remembering their Ancestry from McCulloch and Pitts) -- The World as Interface/Interface as Continuum -- Interfaciology -- Cooperation in Robotics (Luc Steels) -- Games and Seduction -- The Science of Charm -- What is Second Life? -- Avatar -- Ingo Rechenberg -- Thomas Ray - Tierra -- Embodied Souls -- Robotic Care Givers -- Animals are Behaviorists -- Benevolence from a Doll and Animals Brought into Personhood -- Expanded Neural Aesthetics/The Aesthetics of Neosentience -- Descartes' Doll -- How to Build a Superluminal Computer -- Computers Began as People -- A Multi-perspective Approach to Understanding That Which is at Operation in the Body Contributing to Thought and Sentience -- Neosentientology -- The Articulation of a Bio-mimetic Form of Computation -- Neuromorphic Articulation -- Vast Complexity -- Insight Engine -- The Glass Ceiling and the Vertical Breakthrough -- Potato Washing -- Poly-sensing Potentials -- Multimodal Machinic Sensing vs Human Sensing -- Related Robotic Projects - Luc Steels -- Artificial Seal -- Ralph Hollis - Flotor -- The Scandal of Benevolence -- Leibniz and Benevolence - Delectatio in felicitate alterius -- The Benevolence of Cooking -- Charm - The Naked Soul -- The Scandal of Color -- The Physics of Immortality (Everett) -- The Thing About the Shared Mind's Eye (Einstein).
The Omega Point - Jacob, Avicenna, Teilhard -- The Jump -- The Purring Little White Seal -- The Sims by Will Wright -- Konrad Lorenz - "Endogenous Mood Pressure" -- Play -- Arthur Koestler -- Wilfried Hou Je Bek -- Sex -- The Infinite Joy in Music -- Ongoing Goals for the Neosentient -- Threshold of Personhood -- Identification with Color -- Long-term Mutation -- Neosentience - Positive Techno-evolution or Extreme, Hostile Takeover Environment? -- Stephen Smale - Axiom A Attractor -- In the Spirit of a Haiku -- Wilfried Musterle -- David Marr and Tomaso Poggio - Vision System -- Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Roger Lewin and the Soul of the Ape Buddha -- Buddha -- Multiple Approaches to Time and the Now -- Death Without a Corpse -- Evil as a Contagious Disease -- The Seduction Toward the Good -- Second Class of Brains -- Tenderness -- Vannevar Bush's Differential Analyzer -- Kant - The Dreams of a Ghost Seer -- Bob Rosen - On Biological Systems as Paradigms for Adaptation -- Three Branches of Mathematics -- Klaus-Peter Zauner - "Molecular Information Technology" -- Howard Pattee - How Does a Molecule Become a Message -- Yukio-Pegio Gunji -- Kunihiko Kaneko -- One Particular Way of Pattern Matching -- The Angel of Redness -- All Aesthetics are Neural Aesthetics -- Neosentient Aesthetics -- Some Reflective Projections on the Internal Screen of the Brain -- Kleist -- Turing -- Dystopian Techno-evolution (continued) -- Male Mothers -- Fear of an Awesome Responsibility -- Spielberg's Epic A.I. -- Post-Darwinian Symbiosis (Lion, Lamb, and Computer) -- Turing Test -- Bringing up the Computer -- Epictetus and the Turing Test -- Descartes and the Turing Test -- Philip K. Dick's Empathy Test -- Galactic Export -- Computational Potentiality -- The Physics of Meaning -- An Ultrametric Dream - Vladimir Anashin and Andrei Khrennikov's Robotic Subconscious.
The Tale of the Whale.
Abstract:
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 to reflect on how we experience and interpret the world, how memory works, and what it is to be human. 'Although the manuscript's subject might fit within the domains of Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Life, consciousness and mind studies, the approach to these topics comes from a poetic/scientific point of view within which its originality becomes apparent. Both authors have directly or indirectly contributed to the field of arts and profusely written on correlated subjects and its intersection with the domains of science and technology. This gives to the book a unique approach, which is insightful, speculative and substantial at the same time. This intuitive side of the manuscript owes to that fecund conjunction between arts and science.' Guto Nobrega More information The study addressed in this "book" puts forward a project that is twofold. Firstly, it discusses the conceptual basis within which it would be possible for the construction of a "neosentient" system, a machine endowed with the capacity to perceive or feel things in the world, as if manifesting a proto form of (artificial) consciousness. Secondly, it hypothesizes about the rising of benevolence through the interaction/intra-action, between "neosentient" machines and their environment,
which include us, human beings, as inhabitants. The manuscript tackles its task in a very particular manner as it interrelates a constellation of ideas in order to address key research agendas on the fields of language, aesthetics, philosophy, biology, physics, science, technology, mind and consciousness to name some. The goal of the book is not to define the structure within which such an engine could be built, it does not bring into light the blueprint of such an, but it nails down key concepts from a broad range of topics, mapping a path for future research, reinforcing this way the sense of feasibility of its enterprise. In doing so, the book illuminates trajectories, ramifications or even non-directly correlated ideas that would pass unnoticed to the reader's mind, were not by the authors generously bringing into play sets of key scholars, theories, discoveries, even speculative ideas.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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