Please distribute to others who may be interested... You are hereby invited to a seminar in our tenth interdisciplinary series on Evolution, Complexity and Cognition <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108> (ECCO 2013-2014)
Time: Friday May 2, 14h-16h Place: *room D.1.07 * ------------------------------ Design thinking for Evolutionary cybernetics: introducing artificial evolution by sensory-‐motoric workspace *Mixel Kiemen <http://www.mixel.be>* (ECCO, GBI) Abstract: Evolutionary cybernetics (Heylighen 1992) is the study of how variation and selection give rise to more advanced regulation. In other works it shows a constructive growth of evolutionary systems. Evolutionary studies are often descriptive. The constructive growth requires us to consider a design thinking perspective to describe the evolving system. In this seminar I go back to some harder scientific problems, like the relation between statistical entropy and thermodynamic entropy to show how design thinking is hidden in such descriptions. The hidden description is about "potentiality" and it is a fundament to describe artificial evolution. Where Heylighen elaborate in his study on entropy how energy is "potential variation". I create an argument about "potential selection" by starting from the well know expression of McLuhan (1967) "the medium is the message" and apply it to natural mediums (physical and chemical). The medium becomes a potential selection because it constraints the possible propagation. By examining natural mediums the concept of sensory‐motoric coupling get introduces as a specific medium I call a workspace. Inside the workspace invariant patterns arise by feedback mechanisms. The most primitive workspace only has the invariant patterns under very specific conditions. The most common workspaces are found with organizations, for the creation of abstract knowledge. A workspace is also described to elaborate how brains are able to create regulation (Dehaene et al. 1998). The brain is the central regulator of an intelligent agent. Cybernetics has been investigating regulation, creating laws like requisite knowledge. From such laws another argument is made how agents are the most advanced state of agency, while primitive state of agency is a specific state of energy. It brings me eventually to define artificial evolution as a bootstrapping cascade between a workspace and agency. The description allows for a more systematic description of evolutionary systems and the emerging of intelligence by advanced evolutionary designs. ------------------------------ Upcoming Seminars *May 9 * Cliff Joslyn *Modeling Global Control Systems: Formal Approaches to Understand What a Global Brain Could Be * *May 16 * Abraham Bernstein (University of Zurich) *Programming the Global Brain - Implications for Computer Science* *May 23 * Shima Beigi *A generic framework for resilience of complex adaptive systems* *May 30* Mehdi Moussaid (Max Planck Institute for Human Development) *Social influence and collective opinion dynamics* *June 6* Petter Braathen *Linking Complexity Science and Strategic Management* *June 13* Alfonso Molina *June 20 * Piet Holbrouck (ECCO) *Problem Solving and Paradigm Shifts* *June 27* Viktoras Veitas & David R. Weinbaum (Weaver) (ECCO,GBI) See also the ECCO/GBI calendar<https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=azMyN252aWluM2JoMnU3MXY5OGt2ZzliOGdAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ>. You can add this calendar to your calendar application throughhere<https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/k327nviin3bh2u71v98kvg9b8g%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics> More info about the ECCO seminar program: http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108 -- Evo Evo Busseniers - Seminar Coordinator ECCO Group (VUB) <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/1> Email: [email protected] Website: http://vub.academia.edu/EvoBusseniers<http://be.linkedin.com/in/weaver9/>
