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Filename: maths-evol-sloman.pdf (PDF DRAFT)
Title: Evolution of Geometrical Reasoning
(Overdue, but still draft, bookchapter.)
Author: Aaron Sloman
Date Installed: 22 Sep 2013
Publication details:
Abstract: (To be added)
Filename: cybertalk-sloman-2013.pdf (PDF)
Filename: cybertalk-sloman-2013.html (HTML)
Title: Extending Turing's Pattern: From Morphogenesis to Meta-morphogenesis
Invited contribution to Cybertalk Magazine, September 2013
http://www.softbox.co.uk/cybertalkAuthor: Aaron Sloman
Date Installed: 30 Jul 2013
Date Modified: 28 Aug 2013Where published: Cybertalk Magazine Issue Three (Sept 2013) Pages 48-9
In a special issue on Alan Turing
Published by SBL (SoftBox) in http://www.softbox.co.uk/cybertalk-issuethree
Pages 48-9Abstract:
The Darwin-Wallace theory of natural selection shows that, in principle, diverse and
complex, organisms, and ecosystems containing them, could emerge from much simpler
systems by many small steps, provided that the mechanisms operated on by selection
had the power to accommodate that diversity and complexity. But that left open the
question: what sorts of underlying machinery could do that?
Computational experiments on artificial evolution suggest that in principle modern
computers could replicate evolution of all living phenomena. However, combining and
extending Turing's ideas about computation and morphogenesis may reveal previously
unnoticed potential in the mixture of continuity and discreteness found in chemical
information processing but unavailable in discrete symbol manipulators.
A mixture of discrete and continuous mechanisms may turn out to be crucial for
providing new, deep and general explanations of processes in which a dust cloud
condenses to form a planet that several billion years later includes microbes,
monkeys, music, mathematics, manslaughter, metropolitan cultures and other marvels.
Would Turing have contributed to developing that idea if he had lived longer?
The seeds of the contribution seem to be in his 1952 paper on Chemical Morphogenesis.For more on the Meta-Morphogensis project see:
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/misc/meta-morphogenesis.html
Filename: Arriola-Rios-2013.pdf (PDF)
Title: Salient Features and Snapshots in Time:
An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Object Representation
Authors: Veronica E. Arriola-Rios[1] and Zoe P. Demery[2] (Joint first authors)
with Jeremy Wyatt[1], Aaron Sloman[1], and Jackie Chappell[2][1] School of Computer ScienceDate Installed: 9 Apr 2013
[2] School of Biosciences
University of Birmingham, UK, B15 2TTWhere published:
In Computing Nature (Turing Centenary Perspective)
Eds: Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, Raffaela Giovagnoli
Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics
(Vol. 7, pp. 171-184).
Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.
doi:10.1007/978-3-642-37225-4_10
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-37225-4_10Abstract:
Faced with a vast, dynamic environment, some animals and robots
often need to acquire and segregate information about objects. The
form of their internal representation depends on how the information
is utilised. Sometimes it should be compressed and abstracted from
the original, often complex, sensory information, so it can be
efficiently stored and manipulated, for deriving interpretations,
causal relationships, functions or affordances. We discuss how
salient features of objects can be used to generate compact representations,
later allowing for relatively accurate reconstructions and
reasoning. Particular moments in the course of an object-related
process can be selected and stored as `key frames'. Specifically, we
consider the problem of representing and reasoning about a
deformable object from the viewpoint of both an artificial and a
natural agent.
Keywords:
Representations, Learning, Exploration, Cognitive Agents, Animal Cognition,
Deformable Objects, Affordances, Dynamic Representation, Salient Features.
sloman-clark-bbs-2013.pdf (PDF)
Title: What else can brains do?Author: Aaron SlomanSlightly revised version of commentary on
"Whatever Next? Predictive Brains, Situated Agents, and the Future of Cognitive Science."
By Andy Clark
To appear in Behavioral and Brain Sciences Journal 2013.
Date Installed: 9 Mar 2013Date published: Unknown (In Press)
Where published:The published version will appear in BBS, probably in 2013. Cambridge University PressAbstract:The approach Clark labels "action-oriented predictive processing" treats all cognition as
part of a system of on-line control. This ignores other important aspects of animal, human,
and robot intelligence. He contrasts it with an alleged "mainstream" approach that also
ignores the depth and variety of AI/Robotic research. I don't think the theory presented
is worth taking seriously as a complete model, even if there is much that it explains.Unlike the printed version, the version here may be revised or extended.
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