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The main part of the book consists of the dialogue between
physicist Otto Rössler, and artist and AI researcher Bill Seaman
with the commentaries disclosing information perspective by
information scientist Mark Burgin and Bill Seaman. In this
dialogue, Rössler and Seaman discuss concepts surrounding
Rössler's major research over his lifetime. Additionally, each
research topic is linked to the set of papers and books published
by Rössler and other related collaborative researchers. The goal
is to delineate an intellectual directory for future researchers.
The discussed topics being transdisciplinary in nature cross many
fields in science and technology. A comprehensive historical
bibliography is also included. The work explores many fields
germane to theoretical science as Rössler was often quite early in
developing these fields and interacting with many famous
scientists. This work pertains to information theory, which has
often been left out of the historical literature.Burgin as an
expert in information theory is providing an information
perspective on this dialogue adding historical discussion and
relevant scientific and mathematical underpinnings of the discussed
ideas. His observations are complemented by Seaman, who presents
the synthesis of artistic and scientific outlook.Addendum contains
articles describing Rössler's relationships to colleagues from
multiple fields, a parable by Rössler and papers related to
Rössler's research and theoretical models of processes in the
universe.
The study addressed in this 'book' puts forward a project that is
twofold. Firstly, it discusses the conceptual basis within which it
would be possible for the construction of a 'neosentient' system, a
machine endowed with the capacity to perceive or feel things in the
world, as if manifesting a proto-form of (artificial)
consciousness. Secondly, it hypothesizes about the rising of
benevolence through the interaction/intra-action, between
'neosentient' machines and their environment, which include us,
human beings, as inhabitants. The manuscript tackles its task in a
very particular manner as it interrelates a constellation of ideas
in order to address key research agendas on the fields of language,
aesthetics, philosophy, biology, physics, science, technology, mind
and consciousness to name some. The goal of the book is not to
define the structure within which such an engine could be built, it
does not bring into light the blueprint of such an, but it nails
down key concepts from a broad range of topics, mapping a path for
future research, reinforcing this way the sense of feasibility of
its enterprise. In doing so, the book illuminates trajectories,
ramifications or even non-directly correlated ideas that would pass
unnoticed to the reader's mind, were not by the authors generously
bringing into play sets of key scholars, theories, discoveries and
even speculative ideas.
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