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Complex system - Wikipedia
Emergent behaviors and properties
Another common feature of complex systems is the presence of emergent behaviors and properties: these are traits of a system that are not apparent from its components in isolation but which result from the interactions, dependencies, or relationships they form when placed…
Introducing Artificial Intelligence (Henry Brighton and Howard Selina)
The whole is more than its neurons
However, the Chinese Gym does serve as an illustration that the whole can be more than the sum of the parts. In a sub-symbolic system, the atomic units, neurons and their structured relationship to other neurons, do not individually do much at all. Only when the collection is…
Genghis walks with fifty-one tiny programs
Genghis has no central control. Nowhere in his construction is there a description of how to walk. “The software for Genghis was not organized as a single program but rather as fifty-one little tiny parallel programs.”
Evolving meaning and communication bottom-up
Although the principles of new AI translate most directly into the field of robotics, they are by no means limited to issues in robotics. A closer treatment of the interaction between agents and their environments can be applied to every branch of AI. Luc Steels, director of…
A shared language emerging between agents
The aim of the experiment is to investigate how a shared language can emerge as a result of the interactions between agents. Crucially, nowhere in the experiment is language defined; it develops as a result of interactions between the agents. Starting with a blank slate, the…
The Talking Heads experiment
The key insight of the Talking Heads experiment is that agents develop their own individual and internal way of categorising the world they see. While, at the same time, through external communication, they negotiate a shared lexicon. Different agents may be talking about the…
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian)
The self as a verb dressed as a noun
It seems the only way to make sense of this is that mental events emerge from physical ones, without being strictly identical with them. As the neurologist Todd E. Feinberg puts it, ‘your life is not a pack of cells; your life is what your particular pack of cells collectively…
Consciousness emerges from the working brain
what does seem to be true is that consciousness does indeed emerge from complex physical events in the brain, even if we don’t know how it does so. Whatever the mechanism, we have thoughts and feelings because we have physical brains that work, not because there’s something…