Kybernetes: Volume 1 Issue 2

THEORY OF RELATIVELY CLOSED SYSTEMS WITH ELEMENTS EXHIBITING LINEAR BEHAVIOUR—PART I

R.W. GRUBBSTRÖM

This paper presents a general conceptual framework for systems built up of elements causally coupled to each other, when such causal influence can be considered as to take place…

A GOAL‐SEEKING AND REGIONALIZED MODEL FOR ANALYSIS OF CRITICAL WORLD RELATIONSHIPS—THE CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATION

MIHAJLO D. MESAROVIC, EDUARD C. PESTEL

Foundations for a new approach to modelling of critical world relationships are presented, based on the regionalization of the world and multilevel—multigoal concepts. The…

NEW FORMS OF DISCRETE MECHANICS

DONALD GREENSPAN

In this paper new forms of computer simulation of non‐linear phenomena in Newtonian mechanics are developed. Energy conservation of the discrete formulations is established and…

INFORMATION PROCESSING AND MIND—BRAIN IDENTITY

K.M. SAYRE

The thesis that conscious states are processes in the brain that can be described in terms of the physical sciences is criticized as being scientifically implausible in several…

MECHANISM, INTERROGATION AND INCOMPLETENESS

F.H. GEORGE

It has been argued that Gödel's theorem proves the case against the possibility of artificially intelligent machines, capable of achieving the same level of intelligence as human…

INFORMATION PROCESSING IN THE VISUAL SYSTEM

W. VON SEELEN

In this paper an attempt is made to find a mathematical model for a number of mainly electrophysiological results concerning pattern recognition of mammals. After a short…