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DOMAINE ATTRACTION [1 record]

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Record 1 1995-10-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mathematics
  • Computer Graphics
  • Artificial Intelligence
DEF

In a phase space, the set of initial conditions giving rise to trajectories converging towards the attractor.

CONT

Scientists began to apply formalisms of chaos to research in artificial intelligence. The dynamics of systems wandering between basins of attraction appealed to those looking for a way to model symbols and memories. A physicist thinking of "ideas" as regions with fuzzy boundaries, separate yet overlapping, pulling like magnets and yet letting go, would naturally turn to the image of a phase-space with basins of attraction. Such models seem to have the right features: points of stability mixed with instability, and regions with changeable boundaries. Their fractal structure offers the kind of infinitely self-referential quality that seems so central to the mind's ability to bloom with ideas, decisions, emotions, and all other artifacts of consciousness.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mathématiques
  • Infographie
  • Intelligence artificielle
DEF

Ensemble de points (conditions initiales) de l'espace des phases, tels que les trajectoires qui en sont issues convergent vers une limite asymptotique - l'attracteur.

OBS

Même si l'attracteur est un objet d'apparence géométrique simple, son bassin peut avoir une forme très complexe.

Spanish

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