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Toward turing’s A-type unorganised machines in an unconventional substrate: A dynamic representation in compartmentalised excitable chemical media

Bull, Larry; Holley, Julian; De Lacy Costello, Ben; Adamatzky, Andrew

Authors

Lawrence Bull Larry.Bull@uwe.ac.uk
School Director (Research & Enterprise) and Professor

Julian Holley



Abstract

© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013. Turing presented a general representation scheme by which to achieve artificial intelligence – unorganised machines. Significantly, these were a form of discrete dynamical system and yet such representations remain relatively unexplored. Further, at the same time as also suggesting that natural evolution may provide inspiration for search mechanisms to design machines, he noted that mechanisms inspired by the social aspects of learning may prove useful. This paper presents initial results from consideration of using Turing’s dynamical representation within an unconventional substrate - networks of Belousov-Zhabotinsky vesicles - designed by an imitation-based, i.e., cultural, approach. Turing’s representation scheme is also extended to include a fuller set of Boolean functions at the nodes of the recurrent networks.

Publication Date Jan 1, 2013
Journal Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics
Print ISSN 2192-6255
Electronic ISSN 2192-6263
Peer Reviewed Not Peer Reviewed
Volume 7
Pages 185-199
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37225-4_11
Keywords emerging technologies, computer science, philosophy of mind, engineering, computational intelligence, artificial intelligence, robotics, theory of computation
Public URL https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/935782
Publisher URL http://www.springer.com/