From Complexity to Creativity

Ben Goertzel

ISBN 10: 0306455188 / ISBN 13: 9780306455186

Editore: Springer US Feb 1997, 1997

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Cybernetic pioneer Warren McCullough asked: 'What is a man, that he may know a number; and what is a number, that a man may know it ' Thinking along much the same lines, my question here is: 'What is a creative mind, that it might emerge from a complex system; and what is a complex system, that it might give rise to a creative mind ' Complexity science is a fashionable topic these days. My perspective on complexity, however, is a somewhat unusual one: I am interested in complex systems science principally as it reflects on abstract mathematical, computational models of mind. In my three previous books, The Structure of Intelligence, Evolving Mind, and Chaotic Logic, I have outlined a comprehensive complex-systems-theoretic theory of mind that I now call the psynet model. This book is a continuation of the research program presented in my previous books (and those books will be frequently referred to here, by the nicknames EM and CL). One might summarize the trajectory of thought spanning these four books as follows. SI formulated a philosophy and mathem- ics of mind, based on theoretical computer science and the concept of 'pattern. ' EM analyzed the theory of evolution by natural selection in similar terms, and used this computational theory of evolution to establish the evolutionary nature of thought. 412 pp. Englisch.

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• Titolo: From Complexity to Creativity
• Editore: Springer US Feb 1997
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0306455188
• ISBN 13: 9780306455186
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu

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Cybernetic pioneer Warren McCullough asked: "What is a man, that he may know a number; and what is a number, that a man may know it?" Thinking along much the same lines, my question here is: "What is a creative mind, that it might emerge from a complex system; and what is a complex system, that it might give rise to a creative mind?" Complexity science is a fashionable topic these days. My perspective on complexity, however, is a somewhat unusual one: I am interested in complex systems science principally as it reflects on abstract mathematical, computational models of mind. In my three previous books, The Structure of Intelligence, Evolving Mind, and Chaotic Logic, I have outlined a comprehensive complex-systems-theoretic theory of mind that I now call the psynet model. This book is a continuation of the research program presented in my previous books (and those books will be frequently referred to here, by the nicknames EM and CL). One might summarize the trajectory of thought spanning these four books as follows. SI formulated a philosophy and mathem- ics of mind, based on theoretical computer science and the concept of "pattern. " EM analyzed the theory of evolution by natural selection in similar terms, and used this computational theory of evolution to establish the evolutionary nature of thought.

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Introduction. Prelude: On Complex Systems Science. Dynamics, Evolution, Autopoiesis. The Psynet Model. A Model of Cortical Dynamics. Perception and Mindspace Curvature. Dynamics and Pattern. Evolution and Dynamics. Magician Systems. The Structure of Consciousness. Fractals and Sentence Production. Dream Dynamics. Artificial Selfhood. Subself Dynamics. On the Dynamics of Creativity. Index.