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Principles of Noology

Toward a Theory and Science of Intelligence

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  • Provides novel and deep insights into intelligent systems
  • Contains supplementary material which demonstrates examples and processes
  • Offers the opportunity to learn techniques and methodologies
  • Brings readers quantitative and high resolution understanding of noological processes

Part of the book series: Socio-Affective Computing (SAC, volume 3)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
  2. Introduction

    • Seng-Beng Ho
    Pages 1-39
  3. A General Noological Framework

    • Seng-Beng Ho
    Pages 89-144
  4. The Causal Role of Sensory Information

    • Seng-Beng Ho
    Pages 221-282
  5. Affect Driven Noological Processes

    • Seng-Beng Ho
    Pages 359-389
  6. Summary and Beyond

    • Seng-Beng Ho
    Pages 391-418
  7. Back Matter

    Pages 419-431

About this book

The idea of this book is to establish a new scientific discipline, “noology,” under which a set of fundamental principles are proposed for the characterization of both naturally occurring and artificial intelligent systems.

The methodology adopted in Principles of Noology for the characterization of intelligent systems, or “noological systems,” is a computational one, much like that of AI. Many AI devices such as predicate logic representations, search mechanisms, heuristics, and computational learning mechanisms are employed but they are recast in a totally new framework for the characterization of noological systems. The computational approach in this book provides a quantitative and high resolution understanding of noological processes, and at the same time the principles and methodologies formulated are directly implementable in AI systems.

In contrast to traditional AI that ignores motivational and affective processes, under the paradigm of noology,motivational and affective processes are central to the functioning of noological systems and their roles in noological processes are elucidated in detailed computational terms. In addition, a number of novel representational and learning mechanisms are proposed, and ample examples and computer simulations are provided to show their applications. These include rapid effective causal learning (a novel learning mechanism that allows an AI/noological system to learn causality with a small number of training instances), learning of scripts that enables knowledge chunking and rapid problem solving, and learning of heuristics that further accelerates problem solving. Semantic grounding allows an AI/noological system to “truly understand” the meaning of the knowledge it encodes. This issue is extensively explored.

This is a highly informative book providing novel and deep insights into intelligent systems which is particularly relevant to both researchers and students of AI and the cognitive sciences.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Agency for Scin,Techn and Resrch(A*STAR), Socnd Cogni comp,Ins of High Perf Cmptng, Singapore, Singapore

    Seng-Beng Ho

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eBook USD 129.00
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Softcover Book USD 169.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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Hardcover Book USD 169.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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