Data mining delivers immense benefits and the required methodology is well-known, but it is less well understood is why the data mining process must have the properties that it does. The 9 Laws of Data Mining provide a platform for theories in this area. In this presentation I will focus on those of the 9 laws whose explanations appeal to our understanding of cognition, and explain why data mining is the first intelligence amplifier." Background: Tom completed his PhD at Sussex in 1989, and be...
Social network services have been widely recognized after the Egyptian revolution and the Tohoku earthquake in Japan,where the bursting Twitter postings (called tweets) helped the Egyptian revolution and people in Tohoku to get information and connect. But even without major social effects, the Web demonstrates spontaneous bursting behavior. This is caused by the intrinsic fluctuation among tweets as people re-tweet and tweets are consciously orsub-consciously affected by the time lines. We he...
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Abstract I will present a (very) new computational model of a cognitive system. At the heart of the model is the notion that we (cognitive systems) tend to do what we did before, when we were in a similar situation in the past. When this property is included in a dynamical model of an embedded cognitive system, self-maintaining patterns of behaviour emerge that involve (and depend upon) a wide variety of complicated interactions with environmental features. This occurs in the absence of any sy...
Big Brains, Soft Bodies and Hyper-Redundant Object Manipulation: The-Path-Not-Taken by Vertebrates or Arthropods Frank W. Grasso BioMimetic & Cognitive Robotics Laboratory Dept. of Psychology, Brooklyn College CUNY Modern cephalopods are an evolutionary success story based on brain and body architectures that are fundamentally different from those of vertebrates like mammals, birds and even fish. Large-brained with soft bodies, and sophisticated learning, sensory and motor capabilities their m...
Abstract: Where does my mind stop and the rest of the world begin? Can my conscious experience involve the environment around me? Exponents of the Extended Mind Thesis (EMT) argue that the mind can extend outside the body. One such exponent of EMT is Andy Clark. Clark argues that the machinery responsible for cognition can include objects in the environment but the machinery responsible for consciousness must, as a matter of empirical fact, remain brain bound. I will argue that Clark is correc...
A short screen capture showing a simulation running in Clones. This worm has a neuromuscular system derived from Jordan Boyle's PhD thesis on C.elegans. The body is simulated by a finite element mesh. The muscles are four chains of springs along the margins of the body. ; Their rest length, stiffness and damping are set by nervous stimulation. The muscles also act as stretch receptors for nervous sensation. The yellow spheres are the collision model, attached to the nodes of the boundary mesh....
Lessons from minimal bio-inspired systemsLONG-ABSTRACT: Theoretical discussions and computational models of bio-inspired embodied and situated agents are presented in this seminar capturing in simplified form the dynamical essence of robust and adaptive behaviour. The general problem of how dynamical coupling between internal control (brain), body, and environment are exploited in the generation of behaviour is particularly analyzed.This seminar proposes that the growing consensus about the im...
Soldier Crab Swarming and Dual Neighborhood System modelYukio-Pegio Gunji (Kobe University)Soldier crabs in Japan make a big swarming composed of from hundredsto several thousands individuals. ;>From the observation of soldiercrab behavior we constructed a model for swarming, featuring two kinds of neighborhood. Our model can mimic the wondering behavior of swarms,mass effect to crossing the water, and oscillating behavior in aclosed container (crab clock). It also explains the scale-freecorre...
Mould Intelligence: Computation with Slime MouldSoichiro Tsuda -- University of the West of England BristolA plasmodium of true slime mould Physarum Polycephalum shows various kinds of interesting behaviour, such as multiple cell fusion,autonomous contraction oscillation, and optimised network formation,even though it is just a single-cell organism. The talk will give abrief overview of research on the "primitive intelligence" of this natural swarm intelligence system and how this organism can...
