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Date:         Thu, 30 Jul 1992 07:18:05 EDT
From:         "Bruce E. Nevin" <bnevin@CCB.BBN.COM>
Subject:      possible venue for CT books
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[From: Bruce Nevin (Thu 920730 07:14:50)]

Possible venue.

From:
IRLIST Digest July 29, 1992 Volume IX, Number 26 Issue 122

Fr: EINA@ccvax.unicamp.br
Re: Studies in Artificial and Natural Intelligence

STUDIES IN ARTIFICIAL AND NATURAL INTELLIGENCE

PURPOSE:  The relevance of the study of the human brain to the
study of artificial intelligence has long been an issue of debate
both in the AI community and in the Neuroscience field. On the
one hand, it has been claimed that the study of the brain is too
complex and mysterious to yield useful guides for the
construction of intelligent machines and that these machines may
be developed under different guidelines and hardware. On the
other hand, it is claimed that the behavior of the brain is the
very inspiration for the study of artificial intelligence.

Of course, when neurons agglutinate into brains, new (emergent)
properties arise, not possessed by each of these neurons
themselves, but which derive from their association. This could
be the argument to support the claim that Neuroscience is
irrelevant to AI. But besides these emergent properties, the high
order system (brain) also inherits properties from the unitary
elements (neurons) composing it. This could be the justification
for the attempt to reduce reasoning to the physiology of the
neuron.

As a matter of fact, this discussion is an old issue in the
history of the western phylosophy, since it refers to the mind
and brain dualism. The modern connectionism starts to provide the
ways to approach experimentally this mutual correlation under the
optics of science, that is, putting it as a workable hypothesis
which may be falsified by empirical data. The development of new
techniques to knowledge acquisition and analysis in the AI filed,
was very much encouraged by the success of the Expert System
technology. They were initially developed with the purpose of
obtaining the contents of the knowledge base of the expert
system. However, these methodologies may be applied to
investigate the human thinking. In this way, AI may provide
Neurosciences with a very strong tool to empirically test their
hypotheses about the human reasoning.

The purpose of the present series of books is to be a forum for
this kind of scientific debate. Any work contributing to the
comprehension of the correlation between Artificial and Natural
Intelligence; the experimental approach of Intelligence; the
simulation of Intelligent Activities, and the multidisciplinary
approach of Natural and/or Artificial Intelligence, is welcome to
integrate the Studies In Artificial and Natural Intelligence
forum.  The series may also be the adequate vehicule for
publishing selected papers from congresses and conferences on the
above topics.

AUDIENCE:  This series intends to be of interest for people
working on distintic fields of science but with interest on both
(or either) Natural and (or) Artificial Intelligence, such as:
Neurophysiology, Neurochemistry, Neurogenetics, Psychology,
Mathematical Biology, Intelligent Control, Expert Systems, Logic,
Machine Learning, Connectionism, Hybrid Intelligent Systems,
Robotics, Pattern Recognition, Philosophy, etc.

DISTRIBUTION:  The books are printed in Polland by Omnitech and
are distributed around the world by Physica Verlag.

CONTACTS:
Editor-in-chief:
Prof. Armando F. Rocha
RANI - Research on Artificial and Natural Intelligence
Rua Tenente Ary Aps, 172
13200 - Jundiai - Brasil
e-mail: eina@bruc.bitnet

Publisher:
Omnitech Press
ul. Chmielna 16-2
00-020 Warsaw - Poland
Phone/FAx: (48) (22) 27-34-94
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Armando Freitas da Rocha
Dep. Physiology and Dep. Computer Engineering and Automation
UNICAMP
BRAZIL
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