Computing
anticipatory systems
Tenth International Conference - CASYS'11
A Commented Review of Subjects and
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The CASYS'11 -
Tenth International Conference on Computing Anticipatory Systems has been
organized by the CHAOS association (Centre for Hyperincursion and Anticipation
in Ordered Systems), President Prof. Eng. Daniel Dubois, at the Institute of
Mathematics, University of Liège, Grande Traverse12, B-4000 Liège
1, Belgium. CHAOS organizes CASYS's every two years in Liège under the
presidency of Prof. Dr.Eng. Daniel Dubois. This year the Vice-President has
been Dr.Salvatore Santoli.
The Opening Session, co-chaired by Dr.Salvatore
Santoli and Prof. Dr. Eng. Daniel Dubois, was devoted to the presentation of a
paper by Dr. Salvatore Santoli, on "Nanophysics
and Nanoengineering for Synthetic Biology", and of a paper by Prof. Dr.
Eng. Daniel Dubois, on "The New Concept
of Deterministic Anticipation in Natural and Artificial Systems". The two
plenary sessions were devoted to the paper by Prof. Axel Cleeremans (
The multifarious subjects dealt with in the
sessions of the CASYS'11 were classified and framed into ten symposia:
Symposium 1.ššš Anticipation, cybernetics, systems research,
philosophy and metaphysics - Invited Workshop "Philosophical perspectives on Anticipation" by Gertrudis Van de
Vijver (
Symposium 2.ššš Applied
mathematics, dynamical systems, logics and category theory - Workshop on "Laws of Form and Its Ramifications"
organized by Louis Kauffman and Matt Alpert.
Symposium 3.ššš Physics, quantum mechanics,
relativity, field theory and gravitation.
Symposium 4.ššš Computing systems, information, software
and anticipatory reasoning.
Symposium 5.ššš Soft computing,
natural and artificial intelligence, consciousness and language.
Symposium 6.ššš Cognition,
psychology, language, anticipation and unconscious mind - Focus Workshop on "Anticipation and the Unconscious"
organized by Fillip Geerardyn (
Symposium 7.ššš Evolution
of life, autopoiesis, society and anticipatory biosystems - Dedicated Workshop
on "Physics and Logic of Anticipation in
Biosystems" organized by Salvatore Santoli and Arturo Grappone.
Symposium 8.ššš Econophysics, anticipation, risk management
and operations research.
Symposium 9.ššš Engineering, automation systems, simulation
and anticipatory control.
Symposium 10.š The Eighth
International Symposium on "Computational Self-Organized Emergence"
of the BCSCMsG - British Computer Society, Cybernetic Machines Group. Organized
by Peter Marcer.
130 papers were presented at the
conference by delegates from 21 Countries. Details of the papers presented can
be found in the CASYS'11 website on
http://www.ulg.ac.be/mathgen/CHAOS
A brief account of
papers presented at the opening session,
at the plenary sessions and at the special dedicated Workshops
At the Opening Session, Daniel
Dubois presented in his paper "The New
Concept of Deterministic Anticipation in Natural and Artificial Systems"
the formulation of the concept of deterministic anticipation as the process of
creating and maintaining a plan by anticipation. The genetic code was also
related to this concept, and the program of a Turing machine was also
recognized as a computing system that defines a deterministic anticipation.
Salvatore Santoli presented at the Opening
Session the paper "Nanophysics and
Nanoengineering for Synthetic Biology", in which he introduced the basic
concepts of the emerging fields of Synthetic Biology and of Synthetic Life, and
argued that the basic technology for such extreme engineering efforts to be
feasible is lacking as yet, and first some insights are to be attained into the
nanoscale physics of self-organization, of evolution and of computing as the
fundamentals toward a biosystem engineering.
One of the Plenary Sessions was devoted to the
paper "Prediction as a Computational
Correlate of Consciousness" by Axel Cleeremans who explored the idea that
consciousness is something that the brain learns to do rather than an intrinsic
property of certain neural states and not others. Starting from the idea that
neural activity is inherently unconscious, the question thus becomes: how does
the brain learn to be conscious?
The other Plenary Session
was devoted to the presentation of the paper "On the Halting Problem" by Louis Kauffman, in which the presence
was discussed of undecidable problems in mathematics, with reference to the
halting problem for algorithms, the hypergame paradox and the paradox of the
well-founded sets. All these results are curiously related to self-reference
and the strange loop by which a self-observing system can use its own
operations to itself.
The dedicated Workshop in Symposium 7 on "Physics and Logic of Anticipation in Biosystems"
organized by Salvatore Santoli and Arturo Grappone was devoted to the
inquiry into the possibility of setting forth any isomorphism's between
operations in the phase space and in the logical space. Within this scope,
Salvatore Santoli discussed the paper "Computability
and Unsolvability of Simulation Processes for Anticipatory Behaviour in
Evolutionary Systems", and Arturo Grappone showed some deep relationships
between "Entanglement and Algorithmic
Topology". Diego L.Rapoport discussed in his paper "On the Surmountal of the Cartesian Cut and the Unification of Science"
the fundamental role of perception and its relation to multivalued logic and
the Klein bottle as a fundamental constituent of experience and the life world
at large, and of the self-referential torsion geometries, both of spacetime and
cognitive logical space.
The Eight International Symposium on "Computational Self-Organized Emergence"
of the BCSCMsG - British Computer Society, Cybernetic Machines Group. Organized
by Peter Marcer "Computational
Self-Organized Emergence" of the BCSCMsG mainly dealt with life and
consciousness as arising from quantum properties and related to the geometry of
space time and cosmology.
It is impossible indeed to report on all the
very interesting and stimulating 130 papers presented. It can be certainly
affirmed that again the CASYS event has promoted, within the framework of the
concept of anticipation and anticipatory mathematics, the very intriguing encounter
of various fields of physics, mathematics, logic, cosmology, analytical
philosophies and psychology, all that toward the aim at increasing our insight
into life, biological intelligence and consciousness, all of them as emerging
features in the macroscopic world from the underlying physics of the Universe.
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