現実世界を見る工学教育へ

抄録

This paper points out the importance of Natural Intelligence. Artificial Intellience and the Digitized World are getting wide attention these days. But we should not forget that we are living in the Physical World and most elements there are analog. And the world is rapidly expanding, and changes occur frequently and extensively and in an unpredictable manner. So, we need to look at the Physical World to really adapt to these situations. The Digital World is not the Real World. It is a model and digital information is edited based on our preferences. And Knowledge which plays an important role in the Digital World is the concepts which are condensed in each person’s way to save space in the brain. To adapt to the unpredictable changes of situations, we need to look at the Real World. And we should also remember that engineering and science are different. In engineering, what matters is the outcomes. We do not care what paths we take to get the results. As Shakespeare said, “All’s well that ends well”. This is engineering. In this sense, we need to learn from the invertebrates such as the octopus, which directly interact with the Real World without any Knowledge. They live on their instincts alone. So, we need to make use of our instincts and interact with the Physical World more directly. To develop the next generation engineering in this way, we need to develop truly adaptive team working approach, which is far beyond the current team working approach with the limited number of members and with the strict rules. The Real World does not have such constraints at all.