Presents consciousness as not only cognitive awareness in sensory, imaginational, remembered and dream contexts, but also as the awareness in all of us that is not necessarily…
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Presents consciousness as not only cognitive awareness in sensory, imaginational, remembered and dream contexts, but also as the awareness in all of us that is not necessarily accessed by or immediately accessible only to the conscious mind. Sees consciousness, because of its primal and pervasive nature, as the Holy Grail of the scientific quest. Provides examples of how it can be misunderstood and exposed to sources of confusion. Discusses the resulting scenarios and considers global re‐assessments, including one of evolutionary theory.
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Looks at the interrelationship between resonance, probability and feedback and describes how we can control and direct them – the very essence of cybernetics – by using musical…
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Looks at the interrelationship between resonance, probability and feedback and describes how we can control and direct them – the very essence of cybernetics – by using musical science to explain their causes and effects.
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Considers the relationship between system theory and the roots of democracy. Discusses democracy in the context of the societal system and examines the need for awareness of the…
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Considers the relationship between system theory and the roots of democracy. Discusses democracy in the context of the societal system and examines the need for awareness of the way in which it has developed. Introduces a simple scheme with remarkable natural affiliations to illustrate the socio‐cybernetic viewpoint and explains how acentric, bilateral symmetry is the basis of natural system generation. From this analysis studies the positive feedbacks in relation to global crime and war. Looks at the state of contemporary awareness of the societal forces that have been analysed and described.
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Some new and powerful resources for cybernetics and system theory are explored, stemming from number theory, chronotopology, and the cybernetics of history — a field previously…
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Some new and powerful resources for cybernetics and system theory are explored, stemming from number theory, chronotopology, and the cybernetics of history — a field previously not considered.
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Reviews the unique career of arguably the foremost higher dimensional geometer of the century, H.S.M. Coxeter. Discusses a book which encompasses this span of creativity �…
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Reviews the unique career of arguably the foremost higher dimensional geometer of the century, H.S.M. Coxeter. Discusses a book which encompasses this span of creativity – Kaleidoscopes, subtitled “Selected Writings of H.S.M. Coxeter”.
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Incorporates a unified basis for both set and system theory, and also makes a clear case for topology as the science which both underlies and includes logic. Indeed, careful…
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Incorporates a unified basis for both set and system theory, and also makes a clear case for topology as the science which both underlies and includes logic. Indeed, careful topological analysis reveals the problems besetting the so‐called “law of the excluded middle”. Basically, the middle is there, whether we try to ostracize it or not. Interestingly, makes clear that Buddhist logicians almost two millennia before L. Brouwer's critique of formalistic proofs, had discovered the non‐exclusion of the middle term. Also discusses the related and neglected matter of the tangency between two sets, as distinct from their intersection or disjunction in a Boolean context. These renovated foundations make for new cybernetics and system theory as well.
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Recognition, Learning, and Inference are considered to be the three “bugbear” problems in Artificial Intelligence. The first two are described as having a close relationship and…
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Recognition, Learning, and Inference are considered to be the three “bugbear” problems in Artificial Intelligence. The first two are described as having a close relationship and the third, inference, is seen as part of the process. The place of digital programming is discussed in relation to these new concepts.
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Carrying on the arithmetization of Euler diagrams by George Boole, with refinements by Augustus De Morgan and others, the full‐scale incorporation of binary strings into the…
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Carrying on the arithmetization of Euler diagrams by George Boole, with refinements by Augustus De Morgan and others, the full‐scale incorporation of binary strings into the scheme is discussed, with emphasis on the usefulness of the operator EXOR and its consequent EXORcism of what had remained unclear. Examples and applications are given. By this powerful extension of Boolean algebra Euler/Venn diagrams of class relations can be digitally computed. Its uses to system theory and cybernetics are manifold.
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Constituent analysis is discussed in relation to the concept of something and the thing itself, i.e. concept as opposed to constitution or reality. This is applied to the…
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Constituent analysis is discussed in relation to the concept of something and the thing itself, i.e. concept as opposed to constitution or reality. This is applied to the deduction of conclusions from premisses, testing hypotheses for validity. The deficiencies of computer language in this connection can be addressed by means of constituent analysis. The relevance of deductive and inductive approaches is shown in the CID programming language, which embodies one of the essentials of intelligence.
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The greatest mistakes and delusions of human history have come about through logically drawing conclusions from an omissive set of premisses. Cybernetics, being the science of the…
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The greatest mistakes and delusions of human history have come about through logically drawing conclusions from an omissive set of premisses. Cybernetics, being the science of the study and redirection of feedback, is the science of consequences; its essential task is to recognize and deal with all feedback effects, including the consequences of such omissive conceptions – the so‐called blind spot. Gives some examples of the blind spot as it has manifested itself throughout history in the world of science. Concludes that cybernetics can defuse this blind spot which has perennially plagued human development, individually and societally.