The effort to explain the imitative abilities of humans and other animals draws onfields as diverse as animal behavior, artificial intelligence, computer science, comparativepsychology, neuroscience,
Chris Thornton makes the compelling claim that learning is not a passive discovery operation but an active process involving creativity on the part of the learner. This study of learning in autonomous
Can there be a science of consciousness? This issue has been the focus of threelandmark conferences sponsored by the University of Arizona in Tucson. The first two conferences andbooks have become tou
The concept of fuzzy sets is one of the most fundamental and influential tools in computational intelligence. Fuzzy sets can provide solutions to a broad range of problems of control, pattern classifi
What is consciousness? Recent attempts to answer this question have motivated two interdisciplinary conferences sponsored by the University of Arizona in Tucson. The first volume of Toward a Science o
Artificial life, a field that seeks to increase the role of synthesis in the study ofbiological phenomena, has great potential, both for unlocking the secrets of life and for raising ahost of disturbi
How does a bird flock keep its movements so graceful and synchronized? Most people assume that the bird in front leads and the others follow. In fact, bird flocks don't have leaders: they are organiz
Scientists and philosophers are focusing more intensely than ever on the nature of our human experience, resulting in a newly coalescing field of Consciousness Studies that has become a worldwide and
A sampling from the Tucson Conference of April 1994 the first major gathering devoted to the emerging interdisciplinary field of Consciousness Studies. The 55 chapters are divided into 11 sections: ph
Genetic Programming II extends the results of John Koza's ground-breaking work on programming by means of natural selection, described in his first book, Genetic Programming. Using a hierarchical appr
