Patent EA-002955-B1 (EA)
Title: An autopoietic network system endowed with distributed artificial intelligence for the supply of high volume high-speed multimedia telesthesia, telemetry, telekinesis, telepresence, telemanagement, telecommunications, and data processing services
Inventor: ARNOUX LOUIS AUGUSTE
IPC: G06F19/00
Filed: 1999-05-21
Abstract: 1. An autopoietic networked system including a plurality of member components wherein substantially all said member components are not limited to communicate in any fixed hierarchical channels and which mediates local and non-local activities by interacting with the environment in which the activities occur in hermeneutic fashion through interactive heuristic sequences that the system uses to develop satisfactory actions, these actions being actions that satisfy requirements or criteria set by users or designers of the system. 2 A system as claimed in claim 1 wherein the heuristic sequences are the enactment of distinctions the system makes and extracts out of background flows of environmental data, the distinctions corresponding to the process of selecting data as being relevant for specific activities by reference to corresponding set criteria, the criteria being governed by a trial and error or an interactive selection process that satisfies the set requirements or criteria. 3. A system as claimed in claims 1 or 2 wherein the operation of the system is experiential. 4. A system as claimed in any claim preceding wherein the system is self similar at all levels of aggregation at which any level is considered so that the system displays fractal characteristics and may be structured as a network of networks that individually display the self similar characteristics. 5. A system as claimed in any claim preceding wherein the system works through co-operative interactions among member components, co-operative interaction being defined as the components of the system working together to carry out tasks without the interactions themselves being governed by a hierarchical structure. 6. A system as claimed in claim 5 wherein the system and its member networks, if present, are structurally coupled with their environment through the hermeneutic processes. 7. A system as claimed in any claim preceding wherein the system and its member components or member networks of components, operate without the components of the system or the whole system itself requiring prior or on-going knowledge or representation of the system's topology and/or of the operating environment and/or of themselves. 8. A system as claimed in claim 5 wherein the system and its member networks it present preferably co-develop and evolve with their environment through relationships which arise in a co-dependent manner. 9. A system as claimed in any preceding claim wherein the mediation and actions carried out by the system via the hermeneutic processes and structural coupling are independent of any a priori data pertaining to, statement regarding, or hypothesis, users or designers of the system may make about the state and or nature of the system and/or its environment. 10. A system as claimed in claim 5 wherein at each level of aggregation, member networks of the fractal system display operational closure wherein, while the mode of operation of individual component[s] may be that of distributed non-symbolic forms of processing wherein such member systems preferably display operational closure in relation to other members, interactions between member networks preferably occur through symbolic information exchange and processing wherein the overall systems themselves display operational closure in relation to their environments. 11. A system as claimed in any preceding claim wherein the autopoietic system is endowed with telhex functionality wherein said functionality being defined as any or all of telesthesia, meaning remote sensing, telemetry, meaning remote measurement, telekinesis, meaning remote mechanical action, telepresence, meaning forms of presence effected at a distance and interactions with remote environments and the people, animals and or object they contain through such telepresence, telemanagement, meaning management of people, things, devices and or processes at a distance, and telecommunications meaning any form of transfer of information or data at or over some distance, said telhex functionality being structured and adapted to match the forms of human consciousness that are related to the five senses and more broadly in terms of contact, feeling, discernment, intent, attention, and other such functions as that may be required for and integrated into interpretative cognition, discriminatory consciousness, and storehouse consciousness or memorisation. 12. A system as claimed in claim 11 wherein the structured telhex functionality of the autopoietic system defines layers of activity that apply at all levels of aggregation of the system. 13. A system as claimed in claim 11 wherein at all the levels of aggregation, the autopoietic system displays a dual structure with at least some of its internal organisation being intimately related to local activities through local apparati, whilst the overall system is non-local in its logic of operation. 14. A system as claimed in any preceding claim wherein the system adapts to changes in its environment in a manner which is proscriptive and specifies non-allowed behaviour of the system thereby allowing the system to behave in any manner that is not proscribed. 15. A system as claimed in claim 14 wherein the adaptation is performed by selecting solutions that satisfy performance criteria. 16. An autopoietic network system adapted to operate with the telhex functionality, and preferably incorporating distributed artificial intelligence, including: a plurality of cybernetic devices adapted to function as both the infrastructure of the network and the means by which network services are delivered to network users, wherein the cybernetic devices are adapted to deliver the services to a specific region of space and to communicate with other cybernetic devices in such as manner that the network is in the form of a fractal, non-hierarchical mesh, so that the mesh is self-similar, the mesh having a structure, at a specified degree of aggregation, which is substantially similar to that at any other degree of aggregation at which the fractal mesh is considered. 17. A system as claimed in claim 16 wherein cybernetic devices functioning at a simplest level of aggregation are referred to as assistants and occupy a specified region of space, cybernetic devices functioning at a next more complex level of aggregation are referred to as minders, cybernetic devices functioning at a higher level of complexity are referred to as metaminders, and cybernetic devices functioning at yet a higher level of complexity are referred to as hyperminders. 18. A system as claimed in claims 16 or 17 wherein the cybernetic devices are adapted to operate in a region of space or in relation to a group of cybernetic devices with which they are associated in conjunction with facilitating communications from and to other cybernetic devices. 19. A system as claimed in any one of claims 16 to 18 wherein the cybernetic devices are adapted to supervise or mind one or more other cybernetic devices functioning at a lower level of aggregation or complexity where the supervised cybernetic devices are clustered or distributed in space, and/or any other type of implements, machines, systems, animal, or person. 20. A cybernetic device including: hardware adapted to deliver telhex functionality to a region of space with which it associated; and communications means adapted to allow communications with other cybernetic devices. 21. A cybernetic device as claimed in claim 20 wherein the telhex functionality includes provision of communications for data, voice, videophony, video-on-demand, entertainment, security, educational, health-care, premises management, energy supply and management and banking. 22. A cybernetic device as claimed in claims 20 or 21 further including processing and memory means and location determination means. 23. A cybernetic device as claimed in any one of claims 20 to 22 including input and/or output means including video or audio. 24. A cybernetic device as claimed in any one of claims 21 to 23 incorporated into or connected to ancillary devices including network computers, inertial or other non-GPS based guidance devices. 25. A system as claimed in claim 4 wherein the number of levels of aggregation is not limited. 26. A system as claimed in claim 20 wherein communication means between cybernetic devices include wired, cabled and/or wireless network hardware. 27. A system as claimed in claim 26 wherein the communication means are wirelesses. 28. A system as claimed in claim 26 wherein the communication means incorporate electronic circuits which include one or more programmable element. 29. A system as claimed in claim 28 wherein the programmable element is interfaced so as to take as an input a bit stream to be transmitted and produce, as output, the intermediate frequency for the wireless communication device. 30. A system as claimed in claim 28 wherein the intermediate frequency is of a digital or analog type. 31. A system as claimed in claim 30 wherein the choice of digital or analog intermediate frequency is determined by an evolution scheme used to programme the device, the evolution scheme being governed by specific applications. 32. A cybernetic device as claimed in claim 22 wherein the cybernetic devices is programmed using a technique which emulates Darwinian evolution by means of generating large numbers of solutions covering numerous possibilities within preset specifications and then selecting the fittest to serve as the starting point for a new iteration wherein selection processes are continued until a satisfactory outcome has been achieved relative to set operating criteria. 33. A cybernetic device as claimed in claim 32 wherein the programming methods include variations on simulated annealing or stochastic ensemble procedures. 34. A cybernetic device as claimed in claims 32 or 33 wherein two types of evolution scheme are used, wherein the first type selects a suitable modulation scheme and evolves an implement