The technology of the artificial may be defined as the effort to replicate or mimic natural objects or processes by means of current conventional technology and materials.
Artificial intelligence is an example of such an endeavor.
This talk will report on the results of a theoretical study of the logic characterizing any attempt to design something artificial. Sciences of the artificial focus on discipline-specific problems of reproducing natural objects or processes. We will be concerned with the sciences of the artificial in their own right. We will attempt to characterize the assumptions, methodologies, constraints, questions, and problems that are shared by the sciences of the artificial regardless of the specifics of each domain. The result is an outline of a general theory of the artificial.