A short tutorial for Modeling Meaning and Knowledge, 18 April 2016, at University of Helsinki. Followed by presentations by Mika Pantzar and Sakari Virkki.

1. Timo Honkela, Modeling Meaning and Knowledge, 18.4.2016
Timo Honkela
Modeling Meaning and Knowledge
18 Apr 2016
timo.honkela@helsinki.fi
Modeling evolutionary and
dynamical systems

2. Timo Honkela, Modeling Meaning and Knowledge, 18.4.2016
Heraclitus of Ephesus
"πάντα χωρε κα ο δ ν μένει" καῖ ὶ ὐ ὲ ὶ
"δ ς ς τ ν α τ ν ποταμ ν ο κ νὶ ἐ ὸ ὐ ὸ ὸ ὐ ἂ
μβαίης"ἐ
"Everything changes and
nothing remains still”
“you cannot step twice
into the same stream"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraclitus

3. Timo Honkela, Modeling Meaning and Knowledge, 18.4.2016
Heinz von Foerster
"The hard sciences are successful
because they deal with the soft problems;
the soft sciences are struggling because
they deal with the hard problems."
Responsibilities of Competence.
Journal of Cybernetics 2 (2); 1-6, 1972.

4. Timo Honkela, Modeling Meaning and Knowledge, 18.4.2016
Heinz von Foerster
This article is an adaptation of an address given on September 7,1972,at the Centre Royaumont pour un Science de L’homme,Royaumont,France,
on the occasion of the international colloquim “l’Unite de l’homme: invariants biologiques etuniversaux culturel.”

5. Timo Honkela, Modeling Meaning and Knowledge, 18.4.2016
Influenced
William Ross Ashby,
Gordon Pask,
Gotthard Günther,
Humberto Maturana,
Francisco Varela,
Ernst von Glasersfeld,
Stafford Beer,
John C. Lilly
https://en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/Heinz_von_Foerster
Varela Maturana Ashby

6. Timo Honkela, Modeling Meaning and Knowledge, 18.4.2016
Jouko
Seppänen
Erkki
Kurenniemi
Timo
Honkela
A discussion in Helsinki around summer 1986
Excuse me,
but can I join
the discussion?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erkki_Kurenniemi

7. Timo Honkela, Modeling Meaning and Knowledge, 18.4.2016
Simulation of evolutionary processes
of the nature: Evolutionary programming
and genetic algorithms

8. Timo Honkela, Modeling Meaning and Knowledge, 18.4.2016
Genetic algorithm
Populationi
Populationi+1
Evaluation, selection, crossover, mutation
https://toolbox.kone.com/media/mpb/pdfs/Optimal%20Control%20of%20Double%20Deck%20Elevator%20Group.pdf?rdrsrc=/media/mpb/pdfs/Optimal%20Control%20of%20Double%20Deck%20Elevator%20Group.pdf&rdrtrg=https://toolbox.kone.com/media/mpb/pdfs/Optimal%20Control%20of%20Double%20Deck%20Elevator%20Group.pdf

9. Timo Honkela, Modeling Meaning and Knowledge, 18.4.2016
Simulating the evolution of language
Angelo Cangelosi
Domenico Parisi

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Examples of simulation of
evolutionary processes
http://www.karlsims.com/
Simulation of emergence
of subjective knowledge space
associated with shared vocabulary
and interpretation