[Fis] Intelligence Science

[Stanley N Salthe]

Stanley N Salthe wrote:

Pedro -- Here are my reactions :
>
> Intelligence Science is a new science. It is the scientific spirit applied
> to thought and mental processes and phenomena; it is an emergent
> multidisciplinary direction of research. At the same time, it represents a
> long-standing tradition in oriental thought. After the success of science
> in grasping the rules of the natural world, and despite many false starts,
> science has finally begun to focus on intelligence. Hence East and West
> should meet here, Science and Art should meet here, and it is from here
> that the new scientific paradigm and a new paradigm for civilization should
> evolve.
> In ancient times, human beings faced the challenges of existence. After a
> long period of evolution, it is the time to go from a survival mode - how
> to live better - and now face what A. Feln said: to think better is the
> challenge to our integrity. “Know yourself” was the inscription in the
> temple of Apollo. It can and should be taken to heart now more than in any
> other age. Intelligence Science has been born at the right moment.
>
>
> S: The “right moment” may be too late for our current cultures, which have
> virtually destroyed the natural environment with its 'ecosystem services'!
>
>
> Despite all their problems, all sciences are becoming richer and more
> successful, above all technological disciplines. The Internet is the ‘roof’
> over the Global Village in which this has taken place. Workers in the
> sciences and the humanities are already exchanging information about their
> work and also their feelings about their work. Intelligence Science emerges
> naturally.
>
> We need to continuously try to face and answer honestly the question: how
> can the human factor be recognized and integrated naturally into science?
> Science needs rethinking, humanity needs rethinking, the West and the East
> need rethinking, so that we can benefit from the richness of human nature
> and  bear the complexity of human thought. Integration is not easy, but we
> must do it. If all civilizations develop, reach their limits and then fade,
> contending among themselves, finally they must fail and destroy each other.
> Alternatively, the Eastern and Western civilizations of today could
> interact more dynamically observing, understanding and checking each other
> to form a ‘new’ civilization that could go farther. Which alternative will
> we choose? Intelligence Science burdens itself with this mission.
>
> S: Civilization is mediated by language.  It seems that English has taken
> precedence over all others as the current ‘lingua franca’.
>
>
> From Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Intelligence Science (IS) is a
> strategic transformation, a major contribution to science. Led by the
> Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence ( CAAI), Intelligence
> Science was born in October, 2003. Since the first one created in Peking
> University, in just the last decade, 27 universities have set up a
> Department of Intelligence Science and Technology, and the number should
> increase. We can say that IS has now created a new frontier of knowledge,
> going from theory to practice and to education. But our task, the task of
> this book, is to describe and participate in the research and development
> of this still-forming frontier.
>
>
> S: So it seems that Intelligence science’ will have a mechanistic basis.
> That seems unnecessarily limiting!
>
>
>  Poincaré said: “if we can occasionally enjoy relative tranquility, it is
> because of the tenacious struggle of our ancestors. If our vigor, our
> vigilance relax a moment, we will lose the fruits that our ancestors gained
> for us.
> There is a poem of Master Hong Yi that can describe this new science: “I
> come for the plant/ I leave the flower that has not bloomed yet,/it does
> not mean this is not a fine scene,/waiting for later generations.” Due to
> the interactive changes involving East and West I mentioned above, our
> civilization has achieved a high degree of maturity in what is now a
> precious wealthy and peaceful age.
>
> S: I fail to see this as a “peaceful age”.


STAN
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