Fundamental Generation Systems: Computer Science and Artificial Consciousness

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. Systems and their Designs
1.1. System modeling
1.1.1. Traditional systems
1.1.2. Complex systems
1.1.3. Systems of systems
1.2. Autonomous systems
1.3. Multi-agent systems
1.4. Organizations and systems
1.5. The problem of modeling an autonomous system
1.6. Agents and multi-agent systems
1.6.1. The weak notion of an agent
1.6.2. The strong notion of an agent
1.6.3. Cognitive agents and reactive agents
1.6.4. Multi-agent systems
1.6.5. MAS with reactive agents
1.6.6. MAS with cognitive agents
Chapter 2. Reliability of Autonomous Systems
2.1. Introduction
2.2. Dependability of a system
2.2.1. General concepts
2.2.2. Failure and repair rates
2.2.3. Average estimators
2.2.4. Some methodological tools
2.3. Reliability diagram
2.3.1. Series system
2.3.2. Parallel system
2.3.3. Mixed system
2.3.4. More complex systems
2.3.5. Fault tree
2.4. Reliability networks
2.4.1. Partial graph associated with a subset of components
2.4.2. Reliability network and structure function
2.4.3. Properties of reliability networks
2.4.4. Length and width of a reliability network
2.4.5. Equivalence between structure function and reliability network
2.4.6. Construction and simplification of reliability networks
Chapter 3. Artificial Intelligence, Communication Systems and Artificial Consciousness
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Evolution of computer science
3.3. Evolution of artificial intelligence
3.4. Radical evolution of computing and AI towards fully communicating systems
3.5. The computer representation of an artificial consciousness
Chapter 4. The Informational Substrate of the Universe and the Organizational Law
4.1. Introduction
4.2. The fundamental principles of the informational model of generation of the Universe
4.2.1. First fundamental concept: the foundation of the Universe by a generative information system
4.2.2. Second fundamental concept: informational character of the Universe with its substrate
4.2.3. Third fundamental concept: the organizational law of generation of the Universe
4.2.4. Fourth fundamental concept: the informational energy of the substrate of the Universe
4.3. The notion of generating information in the Universe
4.3.1. The information field of a component
4.3.2. The informational activity component and its information envelope
4.3.3. Fifth fundamental concept: self-control in the organization of the Universe
4.3.4. Generative information
4.3.5. Organizational tendency of the Universe and informational envelopes
Chapter 5. The Informational Interpretation of Living Things
5.1. Introduction
5.2. Origin of living things with bifurcation of the organizational law
5.2.1. Sixth fundamental concept: the production of living things on Earth
5.2.2. Bifurcation of the organizational law
5.2.3. Seventh fundamental concept: the central rule of organizational law in living things
5.2.4. The principle of action of the organizational law for the generation of living things
5.2.5. The life span of a living organism
5.2.6. The unification of the informational envelope with the membrane
5.2.7. The creation of sexual reproduction
5.2.8. Reasons for the production of new organisms
5.3. The informational action of reproduction of living things
5.3.1. The fundamental rule of the organizational law that formed living beings
5.3.2. Morphological patterns
5.3.3. The influence of an external morphological pattern on a living organism
5.3.4. Brain formation and sensory comprehension
5.3.5. The external organizational attractors hypothesis
5.3.6. The possibility of predicting the future of any situation in progress
5.4. The human species in the organizational evolution of living things
5.4.1. Creation of Homo sapiens as a result of very strong evolution
5.4.2. Organizational action of the formation of the human brain
5.4.3. The importance of informational links between groups of humans
5.4.4. Power of group participation in humans
Chapter 6. The Interpretation of Neuronal Aggregates
6.1. Introduction
6.1.1. Form of a thought
6.1.2. Constructivist definition of the notion of mental representation
6.2. The systemic layer and the regulators including the informational regulator
6.2.1. Systemic layer of the psychic system
6.2.2. Regulators
6.2.3. The voluntary choice of the operated aim in the psychic system
6.2.4. The aggregate–regulator rule of co-activity
6.2.5. Morphological role of regulators
6.2.6. Process of intentionally producing a representation on a desired theme
6.2.7. The organizational immersion regulator in an informational state
Chapter 7. The Sense of Informational Comprehension of Living Organisms: The Sixth Sense
7.1. Introduction
7.2. The five usual senses and the use of the informational substrate
7.2.1. The case of animals
7.2.2. The case of plants
7.3. The sense of informational comprehension or the sixth sense
7.3.1. The implicit communication process of the sixth sense
7.3.2. The voluntary process of informational communication
7.3.3. The solicitation of the sixth sense and the comprehension of the informational substrate
7.3.4. The cognitive and sensitive interpretation of the information forms received
7.4. Common use of the sixth sense
7.4.1. Common use of the sixth sense in animals and humans
7.4.2. The action of the sixth sense for hypnosis, the power of magnetism and meditation
7.4.3. The notion of premonition and the sixth sense
7.4.4. Thoughts and the safeguarding of the world
Conclusion
Appendices
Appendix 1. Binomial Distribution
Appendix 2. Geometric Distribution
Appendix 3. Poisson Distribution
Appendix 4. Exponential Distribution
Appendix 5. Normal Distribution
Appendix 6. Lognormal Distribution
Appendix 7. Weibull Distribution
Appendix 8. Pareto Distribution
Appendix 9. Distribution of Extreme Values
Appendix 10. Asymptotic Distributions
References
Index
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