Host: Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics
Co-host: International Fuzzy Systems Association, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Japan Chapter
This paper presents a general survey on "intelligence" from broad perspectives of living organisms including insects, animals and humans. After the current paradigm shifts commonly occurring in the interdisciplinary academic areas are reviewed, we show that the commonly focused interest therein is reconsideration about the mutual and inseparable relationships between the external environment and the internal of the agent that is an actor, an observer, a cognizer, and an interpreter. We put an emphasis upon a fact that autonomous systems can be characterized by their self-organizing capabilities driven mainly by the internal coherence produced by their internal mutual relations, rather than be described by inputs from an external environment. Then, we introduce the subject of semiotics, a new interdisciplinary branch of science, and its potential contribution to bridging between the biological intelligence and machine intelligence. We also describe about its relationships with the current hot topics of embodiment and symbol grounding often discussed by the robotics people.
