Timo Honkela, Modeling Meaning and Knowledge, 18.4.2016

Timo Honkela

Modeling Meaning and Knowledge18 Apr 2016

timo.honkela@helsinki.fi

Modeling evolutionary and dynamical systems

Timo Honkela, Modeling Meaning and Knowledge, 18.4.2016

Heraclitus of Ephesus

"πάντα χωρε κα ο δ ν μένει" κα ῖ ὶ ὐ ὲ ὶ"δ ς ς τ ν α τ ν ποταμ ν ο κ ν ὶ ἐ ὸ ὐ ὸ ὸ ὐ ἂμβαίης"ἐ

"Everything changes andnothing remains still” “you cannot step twiceinto the same stream"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraclitus

Timo Honkela, Modeling Meaning and Knowledge, 18.4.2016

Heinz von Foerster

"The hard sciences are successfulbecause they deal with the soft problems;the soft sciences are struggling becausethey deal with the hard problems."

Responsibilities of Competence.Journal of Cybernetics 2 (2); 1-6, 1972.

Timo Honkela, Modeling Meaning and Knowledge, 18.4.2016

Heinz von Foerster

This article is an adaptation of an address given on September 7,1972,at the Centre Royaumont pour un Science de L’homme,Royaumont,France,on the occasion of the international colloquim “l’Unite de l’homme: invariants biologiques etuniversaux culturel.”

Timo Honkela, Modeling Meaning and Knowledge, 18.4.2016

Influenced

William Ross Ashby,Gordon Pask,Gotthard Günther,Humberto Maturana,Francisco Varela,Ernst von Glasersfeld,Stafford Beer,John C. Lilly

https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Heinz_von_Foerster

Varela Maturana Ashby

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JoukoSeppänen

ErkkiKurenniemi

TimoHonkela

A discussion in Helsinki around summer 1986

Excuse me,but can I join

the discussion?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erkki_Kurenniemi

Timo Honkela, Modeling Meaning and Knowledge, 18.4.2016

Simulation of evolutionary processesof the nature: Evolutionary programmingand genetic algorithms

Timo Honkela, Modeling Meaning and Knowledge, 18.4.2016

Genetic algorithm

Populationi

Populationi+1

Evaluation, selection, crossover, mutation

https://toolbox.kone.com/media/mpb/pdfs/Optimal%20Control%20of%20Double%20Deck%20Elevator%20Group.pdf?rdrsrc=/media/mpb/pdfs/Optimal%20Control%20of%20Double%20Deck%20Elevator%20Group.pdf&rdrtrg=https://toolbox.kone.com/media/mpb/pdfs/Optimal%20Control%20of%20Double%20Deck%20Elevator%20Group.pdf

Timo Honkela, Modeling Meaning and Knowledge, 18.4.2016

Simulating the evolution of language

Angelo Cangelosi

Domenico Parisi

Timo Honkela, Modeling Meaning and Knowledge, 18.4.2016

Examples of simulation ofevolutionary processes

http://www.karlsims.com/Simulation of emergenceof subjective knowledge spaceassociated with shared vocabularyand interpretation