Dear Colleagues, The science fiction writer and philosopher Stanislaw Lem raised a point about intelligence in the 1960's which is perhaps worth thinking about today. He wrote that we shall not see the presence of intelligence in outer space not because it is not there but rather because its behavior defies our expectations. There is still no evidence for the non-exclusive existence of human beings in the class of 'intelligent beings'. However, Lem thought that one cannot be a fully rounded human being unless one thinks from time to time about a possible, still unknown community of intelligent beings of which we would be 'allegedly' part. (The allegedly is Lem's.) The point of this idea is relevant to what we wish to 'get out' of this discussion. It may not only be information that we can somehow exploit for our own benefit or even, yet, of mankind. It is a necessary component of our 'being intelligent'. Best wishes, Joseph ----Message d'origine---- De : z...@bupt.edu.cn Date : 06/03/2015 - 18:53 (PDT) À : pcmarijuan.i...@aragon.es, fis@listas.unizar.es Objet : Re: [Fis] THE FRONTIERS OF INTELLIGENCE SCIENCE--Zhao Chuan Dear Pedro, Thank you very much for recommending Ms. ZHAO's good topic, intelligence science, for discussion at FIS platform. I think it very much valuable that Ms. ZHAO put forward to us the great challenge of methodology shift. The attached file expressed some of my understanding on this iuuse that I would like to share with FIS friends. Best regards, Yixin ZHONG ----- 回复邮件 ----- 发信人:Pedro C. Marijuan <pcmarijuan.i...@aragon.es> 收信人:fis <fis@listas.unizar.es> 时间:2015年03月04日 19时58分15秒 主题:Re: [Fis] THE FRONTIERS OF INTELLIGENCE SCIENCE--Zhao Chuan Dear Chuan and FIS colleagues, The scientific study of intelligence is quite paradoxical. One is reminded about the problems of psychology and ethology to create adequate categories and frameworks about animal and human intelligence. The approaches started in Artificial Intelligence were quite glamorous three or four decades ago, but the limitations were crystal clear at the end of the 80's. It marked the beginning of Artificial Life and quite many other views at the different frontiers of the theme (complexity theory, biocybernetics, biocomputing, etc.) Also an enlarged Information Science was vindicated as the best option to clear the air (Stonier, Scarrott... and FIS itself too). In that line, Advanced Artificial Intelligence, as proposed by Yixin Zhong and others, has represented in my view a bridge to connect with our own works in information science. That connection between information "processing" and intelligence is essential. But in our occasional discussions on the theme we have always been centered in, say, the scientific quasi-mechanistic perspectives. It was time to enter the humanistic dimensions and the connection with the arts. Then, this discussion revolves around the central pillar to fill in the gap between sciences and humanities, the "two cultures" of CP Snow. The global human intelligence, when projected to the world, creates different "disciplinary" realms that are more an historical result that a true, genuine necessity. We are caught, necessarily given our limitations, in a perspectivistic game, but we have the capacity to play and mix the perspectives... multidisciplinarity is today the buzzword, though perhaps not well addressed and explained yet. So, your reflections Chao are quite welcome. best--Pedro -- ------------------------------------------------- Pedro C. Marijuán Grupo de Bioinformación / Bioinformation Group Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud Centro de Investigación Biomédica de Aragón (CIBA) Avda. San Juan Bosco, 13, planta X 50009 Zaragoza, Spain Tfno. +34 976 71 3526 (& 6818) pcmarijuan.i...@aragon.es http://sites.google.com/site/pedrocmarijuan/ ------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fis mailing list Fis@listas.unizar.es http://listas.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis
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