The purpose of this paper is to describe a new neural framework for Artificially Intelligent systems, the Artificial Cognitive Neural Framework (ACNF), which allows for “conscious” software agents within the AI processing environment. “Conscious” software agents are autonomous agents that range in functionality and are situated in the processing environment. They sense the environment and act o...

We present how we have considered the artificial ant paradigm as a tool for the generation of music and painting. From an aesthetic perspective, we are interested in demonstrating that swarm intelligence and self organization can lead to spatio-temporal structures that can reach an artistic dimension. In our case, the use of artificial pheromones can lead to the creation of melodies thanks to a...

Historically, cognitive sciences in general and artificial intelligence in particular have had little to say about human culture. However, if the modest success of nascent field of cognitive science of culture in explaining aspects of culture is any indication, further contributions from cognitive scientists may be needed to develop a predictive computational science of culture. This paper outl...

It is often heard in Artificial Life (A-Life) circles that contemporary biology studies life-as-we-know-it (an Earth based, carbon chain phenomenon), whereas A-Life takes as its domain of study life-as-it-could-be. But lacking a clear definition of “life” the question arises: how would we recognize life-as-it-could-be, if we managed to create it? This short paper offers some speculations on thi...

Artificial neural networks now have a long history as major techniques in computational intelligence with a wide range of applications for learning from data. There are many methods developed and applied so far, from multiplayer perceptrons (MLP) to the recent ones being deep neural networks and deep learning machines based on spiking neural networks. The paper addresses a main question for res...

• Traditional AI focuses on higher-order cognitive activity like expert problem solving. • Subgroup stress embodied intelligence artificial life (also Bottom-Up AI, Animat approach, Behavior-based AI, Animal Robotics). • Aim of paper: review the approach and identify major unresolved issues. Delineating the field: The Subject Matter • The study of behavior. • Focus: what makes behavior intellig...

autoselection is a kind of natural selection, that occurs in reproductive traits by inequality of offspring generation and therefore by virtue of the nature of its genes transmission to next generations. in this study, the effects of autoselection on heritability and selection response in reproductive traits by using univariate stochastic computer simulation in artificial selected and unselecte...