A New Kind of Science

Even books accessible by non-expert readers without technical knowledge are repeated many times, long and repeatedly. 200 pages, I have not read anything that I think is amazingly new and useful; I have not touched anything ... more

Since I wrote a new science, I always liked quoting the motto "Weather has its own idea". This sounds so spiritual and pre-scientific. However, according to the most modern science, calculating the equivalent principle stating facts, it is really true: in terms of computational complexity weather fluid dynamics and the same electronic process in our brain. But is it "smart"? When I talk to people about new science and artificial intelligence, I often ask if I think we will achieve "consciousness" on one machine. Life, wisdom, consciousness: These are the concept that we all have concrete examples on the earth. But what are they generally? Every life on Earth shares RNA and cell membrane structure. But, of course, this is just the reason that all the lives we know are part of the connection to history, not the fact that these details are the basis of the concept of life.

Is there a way to bring all the power of the computing world, and the spirit of new science to what the neural network does? I think this is the fact. Indeed, as the details become clearer, I would not be surprised if exploration of the world of computing came at a high growth period. "Mining boom" may be an unprecedented proportion. There is a clear trade-off in current research on neural networks. What happens inside a neural network is like a simple mathematical function, basically an arithmetic parameter, which makes it easier to train a network using the concept of computation. However, the more things are like individual programs or the more computationally possible changes in the structure, the harder it is to train the network.

That is how to use "new science". Because its core is to discuss purely abstract computational phenomena independently of the application of specific areas and tasks. It is somewhat similar to elementary school mathematics. There are things that you need to teach and understand in order to introduce the idea of ​​mathematical thinking regardless of specific applications. Therefore, it is also the core of new science. In the world of computing there are things that need intuition and learning to introduce the concept of computation - completely independent from detailed applications