Artificial Intelligence and Nature's Fundamental Process
Peter J. Marcer, Peter Rowlands
In order to address the central question at the heart of the concluding debate at the AAAI 07 Spring quantum interaction symposium, where it was proposed that other probabilistic and nondeterministic theories might replace quantum mechanics, even in relation to quantum physics, and in further explanation of our AAAI Spring 2007 paper ‘How Intelligence Evolved?’, we outline the derivation from first principles of what we call the universal rewrite system. For, once derived, this system has all the appearances of being nature’s semantic computational machine order code, readily identifiable with a new version of quantum mechanics, and powerful predictive capabilities. These, fully detailed in the book Zero to Infinity, now published by World Scientific (Rowlands, 2007), especially in chapter 20, which is a joint contribution by the authors of this paper, are in total agreement with experiment so far, in particular in elementary particle physics, magnetic nuclear spectroscopy and MRI, and the DNA / RNA genetic code molecular biology. Indeed, in the earlier paper, a further identifiable version of this universal rewrite system in recognition of its descriptive quantum physical nature, is that of Dirac’s bra / ket quantum mechanical formalism, where bra and ket will serve as the two creation and conserve universal rewrite system rules / productions, so showing it to describe, in the case of bosons, a Bargmann-Fock quantum field of creation / annihilation operators. It is our view, therefore, that this quantum physical universal computational rewrite system, where the nilpotent generalization of Dirac’s famous quantum mechanical equation specifies the computational machine order code, describes the quantum physical system of process at the heart of nature, and that recognition of this is a necessary step in creating an artificial intelligence which has semantic, as well as syntactic features.
•Jan 1, 2007•2 citations