Estep Self-Organizing Natural Intelligence

Issues of Knowing, Meaning, and Complexity
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-1-4020-5299-6
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 381 Seiten, Web PDF

Reihe: Behavioral Science

Self-Organizing Natural Intelligence brings new scientific methods to intelligence research that is currently under the influence of largely classical 19 century single causal theory and method. This out-dated classical approach has resulted in the single-capacity g-theory, a "central processor," top-down, genetically determined linguistic view of intelligence that is directly contradicted by empirical facts of human and animal studies of intelligence.

This book proposes, utilizes, and demonstrates the research superiority of a highly developed multidisciplinary theory models approach to intelligence. With conceptual tools, concepts and mathematical methods more suited to continuous, dynamic phenomena of living things, the entire scope of natural intelligence based upon empirical studies of actual human and animal experience is addressed. Results show that human and animal intelligence is largely self-organizing and emergent across a spectrum of major categories of kinds of natural intelligence, not limited to a single "top down" capacity as current proponents of the single-capacity g-theory and IQ approach support.

Contrary to the single-capacity verbal theory of intelligence, this work argues and shows evidence for three major categories of natural intelligence. Overwhelming empirical evidence is given to show that our understanding of cognition itself must be broadened to include nonverbal immediate awareness as a category of natural intelligence that is embedded within sensory and somatosensory-motor processes that make possible yet another category of intelligence, knowing how.

While most current theories of intelligence assume that the mind is entirely computational, and also assume that sensation is cognitively "neutral," having no intentionality, here empirical evidence is presented from numerous clinical studies showing that certain primitive sensory processes are not cognitively neutral, nor dothey require a representational language interface in order to be accessible to cognitive (intelligence) processes.

This volume describes a rigorous treatment and exhaustive classification of natural intelligence while also demonstrating a more adequate scientific and mathematical approach than current statistical and psychometric approaches shoring up the out-dated and misused IQ hypothetical construct.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Myrna Lynne Estep holds the B.A., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Indiana University, Bloomington, where she also taught and where much of the research for this book was originally done. She has also held faculty positions at the University of Zimbabwe; a branch of the University of Texas; and held various professional positions with the U.S. Government. She is the author of numerous scientific and technological papers, two books, co-editor of another, and has conducted studies in social and political theory affecting women, minorities, and the poor. Her biography appears in numerous reference books including The Directory of American Scholars; various editions of the Marquis Who's Who and Who’s Who in Science and Engineering. She was elected a member of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi in 1992, and is an active researcher and writer in the behavioral sciences and artificial intelligence. Along with her husband, philosopher-scientist Richard Schoenig, she spends much of her time in West Texas and in the high San Juan Mountains of southwest Colorado.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Estep, Myrna

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Neurobiologie, Verhaltensbiologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik Statistische Physik, Dynamische Systeme
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Logik, formale Sprachen, Automaten
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie Intelligenz, Denken, Problemlösen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Dedication. Introduction. List of Abbreviations. List of Figures and Tables. Acknowledgements. 1. The Problem of Intelligence. 1.1 Some of the Basic Issues. 1.2. The Faulty Sciences of Intelligence.’1.3 Requirements for a New Science of Intelligence.’1.4 Summary. 2. The Universe of Intelligence. 2.1 Carving the Problem Space.’2.2 Classical Origins of Fabric of Intelligence Theory: Cut on Biases.’2.3 Today's IQ Tests: Circularity, Bias, and American Eugenics.’2.4 Summary. 3. The Genesis of Intelligence: Innate and Emergence Arguments. 3.1 Categorization, Classification, Concepts and Representation.’3.2 The Continuing Problem with Universais (Concepts): Some History. 3.3 The Innate Versus Emergence Arguments.’3.4 Summary. 4. The Intelligence of Doing: Sensorimotor Domains and Knowing How. 4.1 The Intelligence of Doing.’4.2 The Science of Awareness.’4.3. Primitive Intelligence of Moving and Touching.’4.4 Summary. 5. Universals, Mathematical Thought and Awareness. 5.1 On the Origins and Nature of Mathematical Thought.’5.2 Problems with Representation Theories Revisited.’5.3 Phenomenal Experience and Mathematics.’5.4 Summary. 6. Intelligence as Self-Organizing Emerging Complexity. 6.1 Categories of Natural Intelligence. 6.2 Self-Organization and Pattern Formation.’6.3 Mechanism and Organicism Revisited.’6.4 Nonlinear Theory Models Approach to Natural Intelligence.’ 6.5 SIGGS Applied to Natural Intelligence Systems.’6.6 From a Symbol-based View to a Geometric View of Natural Intelligence.’6.7 Summary. 7. Mapping Natural Intelligence to Machine Space. 7.1 Classical Architectures for Natural Intelligence. 7.2 Biologically-Inspired Architectures: VLSI.’7.3 Problems with Complexity.’7.4 Summary. 8. Summary and Conclusions of Self-Organizing Natural Intelligence. 8.1 A History of Biased Intelligence Space. 8.2 Natural Intelligence as Self-Organizing and Emerging.’8.3 Nonlinear Methods for a Science of Intelligence. 8.4 Some Issues Left Unresolved.’References. Index.

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Über Autor(innen)

Myrna Lynne Estep holds the B.A., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Indiana University, Bloomington, where she also taught and where much of the research for this book was originally done. She has also held faculty positions at the University of Zimbabwe; a branch of the University of Texas; and held various professional positions with the U.S. Government. She is the author of numerous scientific and technological papers, two books, co-editor of another, and has conducted studies in social and political theory affecting women, minorities, and the poor. Her biography appears in numerous reference books including The Directory of American Scholars; various editions of the Marquis Who's Who and Who’s Who in Science and Engineering. She was elected a member of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi in 1992, and is an active researcher and writer in the behavioral sciences and artificial intelligence. Along with her husband, philosopher-scientist Richard Schoenig, she spends much of her time in West Texas and in the high San Juan Mountains of southwest Colorado.