But here it is claimed that intelligent behavior is associated with entropy maximization over histories not minimization. What is going on? Giovanni
On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 11:28 PM, Ben Goertzel <[email protected]> wrote: > > There's been a lot of work in the last decades connecting > physics/communication-theory information with > computational/algorithmic information... > > And of course, algorithmic information is the basis of the Solomonoff / > Hutter / Schmidhuber etc. approach to AGI > > Also recall Read Montague's work portraying cognitive function, esp. > decision making, in terms of entropy minimization... > > So on a conceptual basis, there is certainly nothing shocking here, though > the results are indeed intriguing .. > > -- Ben G > > > On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 7:11 AM, Giovanni Santostasi < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Guys, >> Sergio >> Pissanetzky<https://www.facebook.com/sergio.pissanetzky?hc_location=timeline> >> told us about this idea many many times and he was shunned by almost >> everybody. >> Maybe he used a somehow slightly different way to explain it but the his >> ideas are basically very similar to this. >> He was missing mostly the little toy models to give practical proof of >> concept. >> This is a fundamental breakthrough in my opinion. >> Giovanni >> >> >> >> On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 10:09 PM, Robert Levy <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> "Recent advances in fields ranging from cosmology to computer science >>> have hinted at a possible deep connection between intelligence and entropy >>> maximization, but no formal physical relationship between them has yet been >>> established. Here, we explicitly propose a first step toward such a >>> relationship in the form of a causal generalization of entropic forces that >>> we find can cause two defining behaviors of the human “cognitive >>> niche”—tool use and social cooperation—to spontaneously emerge in simple >>> physical systems. Our results suggest a potentially general thermodynamic >>> model of adaptive behavior as a nonequilibrium process in open systems." >>> >>> PDF: >>> http://www.alexwg.org/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.alexwg.org%2Fpublications%2FPhysRevLett_110-168702.pdf >>> >>> Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZB8TNaG-ik >>> *AGI* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> >>> <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/17130918-e0ecc803> | >>> Modify <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> Your Subscription >>> <http://www.listbox.com> >>> >> >> *AGI* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> >> <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/212726-deec6279> | >> Modify<https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;>Your Subscription >> <http://www.listbox.com> >> > > > > -- > Ben Goertzel, PhD > http://goertzel.org > > "My humanity is a constant self-overcoming" -- Friedrich Nietzsche > *AGI* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/17130918-e0ecc803> | > Modify<https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;>Your Subscription > <http://www.listbox.com> > ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
