WikiSilo

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Posted on November 17, 2013 by admin

WikiSilo theory is a minimalist epistemology that supports a unifying discipline within academia. It is supported by the WikiSilo tool (from wikisilo.org), and Wikimergic is its first client.

History:

The Emergic Approach is loosely defined for unifying cognitive modeling.
Wikimergic (a product of the Emergic Approach) is used to document (or house) the abstract Emergic Approach. It includes WikiSilo components, and the concrete Emergic Cognitive Model.
WikiSilo becomes a minimalist version of the Emergic Approach for science in general. It is housed in the master root level 0 WikiSilo named Wikisilo at wikisilo,org, Simultaneously, Wikimergic has extensions of WikiSilo theory for unifying cognitive modeling.
Open-form thinking updates mostly Wikimergic, but WikiSilo as well. Wikimergic becoming suitable for unifying all of science, academia, general learning and decision making. A tool for unifying the world! Nevertheless, because it currently is concretized by ECM, it appears to be targeted for unifying computational modeling.

Publications:

Leibovitz, D. P. (2013) Wikisilo – Free tools and content to support a unifying discipline within academia. Retrieved November 17, 2013 from http://wikimergic.upwize.com/.
Leibovitz, D. P. (2014) , West, R. L. & Belanger, M. (2014) WikiSilo: A Self-organizing, Crowd Sourcing System for Interdisciplinary Science [Abstract]. In P. Bello, M. Guarini, M. McShane, & B. Scassellati (Eds.), Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (p. 3333). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. (abstract; poster PDF)

External links

wikisilo.org (official site)
wikimergic.org (development partner; official site)

Wikimergic is derived from the Emergic Approach to unified cognitive modeling. As a product, it forms a wiki and tool that can be used for unifying analysis and synthesis. More importantly, it can demonstrate a coherence of complex distributed conceptions. As a research line of inquiry, one asks how to make the most effective tool for the socializing of unification. David started Wikimergic in 2013.

Wikimergic is a top level WikiSilo, i.e., at level 1. Both are theories, methodologies, frameworks, tools and approaches for collaboratively unifying science. However, a WikiSilo is a minimalist and pure epistemology unconcerned with the nature of reality, while Wikimergic is used for explaining change, behaviour and time based on a fundamental mathematical/linguistic underpinning of open-form thinking.

Wikimergic houses the entire Emergic Approach, while WikiSilo house a compatible but minimalist outgrowth of the Emergic Approach. The root level WikiSilo (named Wikisilo) currently houses only WikiSilo theory, while Wikimergic is a top-level WikiSilo underneath vying for ultimate acceptance.

Wikimergic also houses WikiECM as a 2nd level WikiSilo, as the abstract is always better informed with a concrete model. So currently, Wikimergic has cognitive modeling examples, even though it is directed to unifying all of science in particular, and all decisions making in general (all of academia).

History:

The Emergic Approach was loosely formulated as an epistemology for unifying cognitive modeling. The Emergic Cognitive Model was a scientific theoretical product of the approach.
Wikimergic was a disciplining tool for documenting the Emergic Approach, but it included the future ECM and WikiSilo portions.
WikiSilo was spawned off as a minimalist disciplining and unifying epistemizing for all of science. If Wikisilo.org contained the master root level 0 WikiSilo, then Wikimergic became a top level 1 WikiSilo, and WikiECM a 2nd level WikiSilo. Wikimergic did not yet have the fundamental open-form thinking component.
Wikimergic becomes a general open-form thinking for science, academia and general learning and decision making,

Publications:

Leibovitz, D. P. (2013) Wikimergic: unifying the science of brain and mind according to the Emergic Approach. Retrieved July 15, 2013 from http://wikimergic.upwize.com/.

External links

wikimergic.org (official site)

Emergic Network (EN)

Posted on August 18, 2008 by admin

The Emergic Network (or EN) is an “artificial neural” network architecture that abandons traditional neural oversimplifications and facilitates an Emergic Approach to design that harnesses emergence by explicitly encoding the interactions among multiple flows of information.

Note: that while an Emergic Network unit can correspond to an actual neuron, the Emergic Network is not a network of neurons, and each unit can correspond to an arbitrary domain of analysis, as low as quantum mechanics if desired, up to social groupings. That is why “neural” is in quotes. Indeed a single unit is Turing complete and could simulate an entire artificial neural network.

The Emergic Network architecture, is described and housed within Wikimergic.

Related Publications:

Leibovitz, D. P. (2013). A Unified Cognitive Model of Visual Filling-In Based on an Emergic Network Architecture. (Order No. NR94549, Carleton University (Canada)). ProQuest Dissertations and Theses, pp. xxxii-459. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/1437103134?accountid=9894. (1437103134). [doi: 10.13140/RG.2.1.2681.6482]
Leibovitz, D. P., & West, R. L. (2012) Cognitive Re-Use via Emergic Networks. In N. Rußwinkel, U. Drewitz, & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM 2012), pp. 72–73. [doi: 10.13140/RG.2.1.3562.9282]
Leibovitz, D. P., & West, R. L. (2012). Cognitive Re-Use via Emergic Networks. Poster presented at the 11th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM 2012), pp. 1-12. Berlin, Germany. [doi: 10.13140/RG.2.1.4218.2884]
Leibovitz, D. P. (2011) Emergic Network. Published as open sourced code. Retrieved September 7, 2015 from http://emergic.upwize.com/?page_id=6.

See also:

Emergic Approach (constrains the design and use of the Emergic Network)
Emergic Cognitive Model (is an Emergic Network)
software (for an Emergic Network)
Wikimergic (describes and houses the Emergic Network)

Emergic Cognitive System

Posted on February 29, 2008 by admin

The Emergic Cognitive System (or ECS) is a system for embodying a developmental cognitive model in a virtual and dynamic agent that is situated in a dynamic environment using simulated real-time for non-representational information processing. This allows a zero parameter model to be tested with a wide variety of experimental paradigms covering a large contextual domain.

Historical Names: Emergic Simulation System (ESS); Emergic Vision System (EVS)

Publications:

Leibovitz, D. P. (2010) Emergic Approach: Philosophy Applied to Cognition. Talk presented to Complex Adaptive Systems Group at Carleton University, pp. 1-36, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. [doi: 10.13140/RG.2.1.1613.2329]
Leibovitz, D. P. (2010) Lilac Chaser Illusion and Virtual Eyeballs. Talk presented at Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. [doi: 10.13140/RG.2.1.2268.5923]
Leibovitz, D. P. (2011) Philosophy Behind the Cognitive Modelling of Virtual Eyeballs. Talk presented at Carleton University, pp. 1-50, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. [doi: 10.13140/RG.2.1.4103.6003]
Leibovitz, D. P. (2012) Emergence of epistemic phenomena. Poster presented at the Cognitive Science Spring Conference of Carleton University, pp. 1-12, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. [doi: 10.13140/RG.2.1.4649.3920]
Leibovitz, D. P., & West, R. L. (2012) Cognitive Re-Use via Emergic Networks. In N. Rußwinkel, U. Drewitz, & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM 2012), pp. 72–73. [doi: 10.13140/RG.2.1.3562.9282]
Leibovitz, D. P., & West, R. L. (2012). Cognitive Re-Use via Emergic Networks. Poster presented at the 11th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM 2012), pp. 1-12. Berlin, Germany. [doi: 10.13140/RG.2.1.4218.2884]
Leibovitz, D. P. (2013) A Unified Cognitive Model of Visual Filling-In Based on an Emergic Network Architecture – Supplement. pp. xv-467, Carleton University. [doi: 10.13140/RG.2.1.4506.4161]
Leibovitz, D. P. (2013) A Unified Cognitive Model of Visual Filling-In Based on an Emergic Network Architecture [Thesis Defense Presentation], pp. 1-28. Carleton University. [doi: 10.13140/RG.2.1.2603.5687]
Leibovitz, D. P. & West, R. L. (2013) Emergence of Border & Surface Completion (both Spatial and Temporal) in a Flowcentric Model of Narrow Slit Viewing. In R. L. West & T. C. Stewart (Eds.), Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM 2013), pp. 1–6. [doi: 10.13140/RG.2.1.1513.9044]
Leibovitz, D. P. (2013) Flowcentric Model of Narrow Slit Viewing in an Irregular Retina with Blind Spots, Eye Motion, Blinks and no Smear: Base Model Changes, Test Details and Test Results. Working Paper, pp. 1-7. [doi: 10.13140/RG.2.1.2224.5606]

Related Links:

Emergic Cognitive Model
WikiECM

Emergic Approach for Unifying Science

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Posted on January 1, 2007 by admin

The Emergic Approach (or EA) is a unifying methodology (and discipline) for progressing science based on the mathematical foundation of open-form thinking. Besides formal proof, the ability to unify disparate phenomena within a computational model is demonstrated by the Emergic Cognitive Model that was completely based on the Emergic Approach, while simultaneously enriching it.

A complex version of open-form thinking has successful hardened physics. However, the soft sciences (and philosophy) are replete with closed-form thoughts that in totality present an almost insurmountable barrier to change. Next to this fortress of cards, open-form thinking appears as a farfetched and irrelevant “philosophy” rather than as the standard approach. While it may be philosophizing, it is less for philosophers, and more for theoretical scientists in the soft sciences (especially cognitive science) interested in synthesis.

History:

From 2007 – present, David Pierre Leibovitz developed a unified epistemology, ontology & metaphysics for the analysis, decomposition, synthesis and modeling of complex systems. The empirical philosophizing behind this Emergic Approach (or EA) to unified cognitive modeling is validated by developing a unified cognitive model – the Emergic Cognitive Model (ECM). This research was initially developed at Carleton University.

See also:

Wikimergic – the formal description of the Emergic Approach and the Emergic Cognitive Model
Emergic – the informal blogging site about the Emergic Approach Continue reading →

Emergic Cognitive Model

Posted on January 1, 2007 by admin

Emergic Cognitive Model

The Emergic Cognitive Model (or ECM) is a unifying cognitive model that develops genetically, i.e., based on development parameters or modeling DNA. ECM advances a single powerful theory of human cognition for explaining a variety of emergent phenomena described across experimental paradigms and academic disciplines

The unifying model has no free parameters, and its emergent behavior is commensurate with expectations in its developmental differences, as well as its interactions across a variety of environments, stimuli and situations.

Unifying modeling is guided by the principles of the Emergic Approach for progressing science. Thus, ECM is based on the Emergic Network (a computational architecture), is embodied and developed within virtual agents (persons), and situated within environments (worlds) of an Emergic Cognitive System, for non-representational real-time information processing.

Jittering retina of the Emergic Cognitive Model

Currently, the Emergic Cognitive Model supports low-level aspects of dynamic visual processing. It has a biological realistic retina (with a blind spot, a random placement of photoreceptors that grow in size beyond the fovea), and supports eye movement (including jitter) without motion blur, blinking, and object motion.

Related Projects:

Emergic Network, the computational architecture used for ECM
Emergic Cognitive System, the real-time interaction system that embodies and situates ECMs
Emergic Approach, the epistemology guiding the unifying development of ECM and use of the Emergic Network
Wikimergic, a top-level WikiSilo that houses the Emergic Approach & Emergic Cognitive System, and parent of WikiECM
WikiECM, a 2nd level WikiSilo (under Wikimergic), that houses ECM