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'#Cybernetics' means rudder, a device used to steer a ship. First used by Plato to signify the governance of people. Ampère used it to describe civil government. A more modern definition is: “the study of control and communication in animals and machines”
'#Cybernetics' means rudder, a device used to steer a ship. First used by Plato to signify the governance of people. Ampère used it to describe civil government. A more modern definition is: “the study of control and communication in animals and machines”
One of its interesting subfields of study is called "#Autopoiesis". It describes the phenomena of an entity "creating itself", and "self organizing". Sounds familar, #ShibArmy 😉 ?
"#Emergence, #SelfOrganization, & #Complexity"
🧵 In today's SFI Seminar, Visiting Scholar @cgershen presents the second in his series of talks on core concepts in #ComplexSystems science, streaming now:
🧵 In today's SFI Seminar, Visiting Scholar @cgershen presents the second in his series of talks on core concepts in #ComplexSystems science, streaming now:
"In high school #physics class you are taught that with the initial conditions of a system, you can predict its future states. In #complexity, this is not so...it means #reductionism is not appropriate, #Platonism is not appropriate..."
- @cgershen
- @cgershen
"You can see a layer of circuits computing something. What is it computing? Itself. In a 248x248 array, you can program the #GameOfLife inside the game of life. Computers allow us to explore #Complexity, and it's no surprise complexity became a science in the 1980s."
- @cgershen
- @cgershen
Siempre me ha asombrado que el concepto de #autopoiesis como definición operacional de lo vivo —una de las ideas más prolíficas de Humberto Maturana junto a Francisco Varela— no haya logrado instalarse como LA definición mainstream que toda la humanidad usa.
Las enciclopedias todavía repiten el mantra de que "los seres vivos nacen, crecen, se reproducen y mueren". El mundo de la astrobiología cita a Sagan: "la vida es un sistema químico auto-sustentable capaz de evolución Darwiniana", pero esa definición es todavía poco útil.
Creo que tienen mucha culpa quienes explican la #autopoiesis sin ir al fondo de la idea y se quedan en comparar máquinas autopoiéticas y alopoiéticas, como empieza haciendo Maturana en "De máquinas y seres vivos": pintan la #autopoiesis como un asunto de auto-fabricación.
In the pursuit of more advanced AI (or even AGI), one must be able to articulate a model of intelligence. That model doesn't have to be absolutely correct, but without one is like navigating unfamiliar territory without a map. You will miss important landmarks. #ai #deeplearning
The Achilles heel of younger AI researchers is the lack of exposure to alternative models of cognition. One has tunnel vision when optimization is one's framework for cognition. Cognition is very messy and acknowledging this should be the first step.
Behaviorism in psychology and reductionism in neuroscience are examples of pursuits that purposely ignored the messiness of the brain. Fortunately, we are moving to more holistic approaches in these areas. The same should happen in AI research.
