Fwd: [NEW BOOK] Rigid Flexibility: The Logic of Intelligence

Klaus D. Witzel klaus.witzel at cobss.com
Sat Oct 14 15:22:38 UTC 2006


List,

I reviewed drafts for this book many months ago, this 
can for sure be implemented in Smalltalk.

/Klaus

--- Pei Wang wrote:

New Book Announcement [apologies for cross-posting]

Rigid Flexibility: The Logic of Intelligence
by Pei Wang
Springer, October 2006, ISBN: 1402050445

This book provides the blueprint of a thinking machine.

While most of the current works in Artificial 
Intelligence
(AI) focus on individual aspects of intelligence and
cognition, the project described in this book, Non-
Axiomatic
Reasoning System (NARS), is designed and developed to 
attack
the AI problem as a whole.

This project is based on the belief that what we call
"intelligence" can be understood and reproduced as "the
capability of a system to adapt to its environment while
working with insufficient knowledge and resources". 
According
to this idea, a novel reasoning system is designed, 
which
challenges all the dominating theories in how such a 
system
should be built. The system carries out reasoning, 
learning,
categorizing, planning, decision making, etc., as 
different
facets of the same underlying process. This theory also
provides unified solutions to many problems in AI, logic,
psychology, and philosophy.

This book is the most comprehensive description of this
decades-long project, including its philosophical 
foundation,
methodological consideration, conceptual design details, 
its
implications in the related fields, as well as its
similarities and differences to many related works in
cognitive sciences.

Book webpage (with Table of Contents):
http://www.springer.com/west/home/computer/
artificial?SGWID=4-147-22-173659733-0

E-Book (with freely accessible Front Matter and Back 
Matter):
http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-1-4020-5045-9

Project website (with demos and publications):
http://nars.wang.googlepages.com/home

---------------------------------
Pei Wang, Temple University
http://www.cis.temple.edu/~pwang/
---------------------------------

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