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MinIdent is an interactive mineral identification and mineral data base management program, now r... more MinIdent is an interactive mineral identification and mineral data base management program, now rewritten in FORTRAN 77. Data have been stored for about 4000 mineral groups, species and varieties. These data include composition, optical properties in transmitted and reflected light, symmetry, unit cell dimensions, densities, Vickers and Mohs hardness, d-values and relative intensities of the 5 strongest X-ray powder-diffraction lines, JCPDS numbers, any polymorphs, occurrences, localities, year first described and sources of the data. However, not all minerals yet have data stored for all these fields.
The program can be used to generate a list of minerals having properties within within the ranges input for an unidentified mineral or can be made to display and rank the twenty most likely identities for an unknown. The program can also be used to tabulate chosen properties of matched minerals, or to tabulate minerals in the data base that have certain specified properties. Alternatively, all analytical and other data stored for a particular mineral can be displayed.
Tests using data for known minerals to simulate unknowns indicate a high degree of reliability given accurate input information, and a surprising success rate even when input data are qualitative in character.
The MinIdent identification and data base management software uses about 400 kbytes of memory and the data base used in mineral identification currently uses less than 4 Mbytes. Running times for typical identification procedures range between about 0.5 and 3.0 seconds of CPU time on the AMDAHL 580/FF mainframe computer on which the program has been developed. The cycle time of this computer is about 23 ns. MinIdent can be accessed globally via data communications networks such as DATAPAC, TELENET and TYMNET.
Application of the MinIdent data base and software are envisaged wherever earth scientists are faced with the task of mineral identification. Such areas of specialization include petrology (igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary), economic geology (ore mineralogy, mineral exploration and mineral beneficiation), geochemistry, meteorites and crystallography.
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ECM indirectly demonstrates the power of unification inherent with Emergic Networks when cognition is decomposed according to finer-grained functions supporting change. These can interact to raise additional emergent behaviours via cognitive re-use, hence the Emergic prefix throughout. Nevertheless, the model is robust and parameter free. Differential re-use occurs in the nature of model interaction with a particular testing paradigm.
ECM has a novel decomposition due to the requirements of handling motion and of supporting unified modelling via finer functional grains. The breadth of phenomenal behaviour covered is largely to lend credence to our novel decomposition.
The Emergic Network architecture is a hybrid between classical connectionism and classical computationalism that facilitates the construction of unified cognitive models. It helps cutting up of functionalism into finer-grains distributed over space (by harnessing massive recurrence) and over time (by harnessing continuous change), yet simplifies by using standard computer code to focus on the interaction of information flows. Thus while the structure of the network looks neurocentric, the dynamics are best understood in flowcentric terms. Surprisingly, dynamic system analysis (as usually understood) is not involved. An Emergic Network is engineered much like straightforward software or hardware systems that deal with continuously varying inputs. Ultimately, this thesis addresses the problem of reduction and induction over complex systems, and the Emergic Network architecture is merely a tool to assist in this epistemic endeavour.
ECM is strictly a sensory model and apart from perception, yet it is informed by phenomenology. It addresses the attribution problem of how much of a phenomenon is best explained at a sensory level of analysis, rather than at a perceptual one. As the causal information flows are stable under eye movement, we hypothesize that they are the locus of consciousness, howsoever it is ultimately realized.
For both computational subject and stimuli details, the appropriate parameter files are shown. These are fully described within the Emergic Simulation System portion of the thesis. The test results are available online in an animated format (Leibovitz, 2012a) that is ideal for exhibiting qualitative behaviour. It is an extremely compact format (one web page for each of the eight computational models), and has a few additional test results. It is available at
http://emergic.upwize.com/?page_id=26
This supplement merely extracts the animated results into a frame-by-frame account with precise timing information suitable for quantitative analysis and print publication. The thesis contains extracts of these frame-by-frame accounts.
The animated results contain an extra Photoreceptor Changes column that is not ordinarily shown in the thesis or supplement as it is not yet part of our cognitive theory. It demonstrates temporal edge detection and is merely the absolute difference in a photoreceptor’s activation between two time ticks.
Some of these results have been previously introduced (Leibovitz, 2012b; Leibovitz & West, 2012).
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1. entering data for a mineral to be identified (the unknown) or entering search criteria.
2. identifying the mineral, or matching minerals meeting the search criteria.
3. displaying data for specified, identified or matched minerals.
This manual assumes the reader is already familiar to some extent with Minldent. It contains all the terms that may be explained via the ? / HELP / EXPLAIN commands.
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The program can be used to generate a list of minerals having properties within within the ranges input for an unidentified mineral or can be made to display and rank the twenty most likely identities for an unknown. The program can also be used to tabulate chosen properties of matched minerals, or to tabulate minerals in the data base that have certain specified properties. Alternatively, all analytical and other data stored for a particular mineral can be displayed.
Tests using data for known minerals to simulate unknowns indicate a high degree of reliability given accurate input information, and a surprising success rate even when input data are qualitative in character.
The MinIdent identification and data base management software uses about 400 kbytes of memory and the data base used in mineral identification currently uses less than 4 Mbytes. Running times for typical identification procedures range between about 0.5 and 3.0 seconds of CPU time on the AMDAHL 580/FF mainframe computer on which the program has been developed. The cycle time of this computer is about 23 ns. MinIdent can be accessed globally via data communications networks such as DATAPAC, TELENET and TYMNET.
Application of the MinIdent data base and software are envisaged wherever earth scientists are faced with the task of mineral identification. Such areas of specialization include petrology (igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary), economic geology (ore mineralogy, mineral exploration and mineral beneficiation), geochemistry, meteorites and crystallography.
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ECM indirectly demonstrates the power of unification inherent with Emergic Networks when cognition is decomposed according to finer-grained functions supporting change. These can interact to raise additional emergent behaviours via cognitive re-use, hence the Emergic prefix throughout. Nevertheless, the model is robust and parameter free. Differential re-use occurs in the nature of model interaction with a particular testing paradigm.
ECM has a novel decomposition due to the requirements of handling motion and of supporting unified modelling via finer functional grains. The breadth of phenomenal behaviour covered is largely to lend credence to our novel decomposition.
The Emergic Network architecture is a hybrid between classical connectionism and classical computationalism that facilitates the construction of unified cognitive models. It helps cutting up of functionalism into finer-grains distributed over space (by harnessing massive recurrence) and over time (by harnessing continuous change), yet simplifies by using standard computer code to focus on the interaction of information flows. Thus while the structure of the network looks neurocentric, the dynamics are best understood in flowcentric terms. Surprisingly, dynamic system analysis (as usually understood) is not involved. An Emergic Network is engineered much like straightforward software or hardware systems that deal with continuously varying inputs. Ultimately, this thesis addresses the problem of reduction and induction over complex systems, and the Emergic Network architecture is merely a tool to assist in this epistemic endeavour.
ECM is strictly a sensory model and apart from perception, yet it is informed by phenomenology. It addresses the attribution problem of how much of a phenomenon is best explained at a sensory level of analysis, rather than at a perceptual one. As the causal information flows are stable under eye movement, we hypothesize that they are the locus of consciousness, howsoever it is ultimately realized.
For both computational subject and stimuli details, the appropriate parameter files are shown. These are fully described within the Emergic Simulation System portion of the thesis. The test results are available online in an animated format (Leibovitz, 2012a) that is ideal for exhibiting qualitative behaviour. It is an extremely compact format (one web page for each of the eight computational models), and has a few additional test results. It is available at
http://emergic.upwize.com/?page_id=26
This supplement merely extracts the animated results into a frame-by-frame account with precise timing information suitable for quantitative analysis and print publication. The thesis contains extracts of these frame-by-frame accounts.
The animated results contain an extra Photoreceptor Changes column that is not ordinarily shown in the thesis or supplement as it is not yet part of our cognitive theory. It demonstrates temporal edge detection and is merely the absolute difference in a photoreceptor’s activation between two time ticks.
Some of these results have been previously introduced (Leibovitz, 2012b; Leibovitz & West, 2012).
1. entering data for a mineral to be identified (the unknown) or entering search criteria.
2. identifying the mineral, or matching minerals meeting the search criteria.
3. displaying data for specified, identified or matched minerals.
This manual assumes the reader is already familiar to some extent with Minldent. It contains all the terms that may be explained via the ? / HELP / EXPLAIN commands.
The program can be used to generate a list of minerals having properties within within the ranges input for an unidentified mineral or can be made to display and rank the twenty most likely identities for an unknown. The program can also be used to tabulate chosen properties of matched minerals, or to tabulate minerals in the data base that have certain specified properties. Alternatively, all analytical and other data stored for a particular mineral can be displayed.
Tests using data for known minerals to simulate unknowns indicate a high degree of reliability given accurate input information, and a surprising success rate even when input data are qualitative in character.
The MinIdent identification and data base management software uses about 400 kbytes of memory and the data base used in mineral identification currently uses less than 4 Mbytes. Running times for typical identification procedures range between about 0.5 and 3.0 seconds of CPU time on the AMDAHL 580/FF mainframe computer on which the program has been developed. The cycle time of this computer is about 23 ns. MinIdent can be accessed globally via data communications networks such as DATAPAC, TELENET and TYMNET.
Application of the MinIdent data base and software are envisaged wherever earth scientists are faced with the task of mineral identification. Such areas of specialization include petrology (igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary), economic geology (ore mineralogy, mineral exploration and mineral beneficiation), geochemistry, meteorites and crystallography.
The model is based on the Emergic Cognitive Model (ECM) (Leibovitz, 2013a, 2013b). ECM is a unified cognitive model and this paper describe the non-cognitive changes made to support and highlight anorthoscopic behaviour. The model is tested against a simplified stimulus as well as an ecological one in order to show demonstrate specific model abilities. Additionally, this paper specifies the testing details and provides the simulation results with minimal interpretation as they are further analyzed by Leibovitz (2013c, 2013d).
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doi: 10.13140/RG.2.1.2603.5687
http://dpleibovitz.upwize.com/?p=1616
- They have severe engineering restrictions
- They take a long time to think
- How does that affect cognition
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1. Cutting Nature at her Joints – What kind of Butcher do you want to be?
2. Tri-Level hypothesis does more harm than good (Marr vs. Simon)
3. What is a function, computation, behaviour or phenomena?
4. Unification as constraining the 20 Questions posed to Mother Nature
5. Emergence
6. Top-Down Design vs. Bottom-Up Re-engineering
David’s intent is to demonstrate that philosophic considerations can positively influence theory construction. We are all influenced by philosophy – do we want to take charge of our path?
- Can plants process information? Do they compute/calculate? Make decisions? Can plants think?
- Do they have goals, plans, intentions, memories? Can they know? Do they represent information? How?
- Do they attend, sense, perceive, feel? Can they be conscious?
- Can they learn? Anticipate?
- Can they communicate?
- Do they have free will?
What do we mean by all the aforementioned terms, and how do we clarify them so that plants are once again relegated to simple stimulus-response systems?
The parting thought is in showing that a trivial stimulus-response system is Turing Complete, so perhaps pointing to individual plant processes and showing that each one alone is a stimulus-response portion might miss the overall system-wide intelligence...
We claim that for the unique requirements of cognition
1. There is only one micro level of ontology, realization and causal explanation (the systems level)
A. It is process oriented
B. It can causally explain all higher level behaviours and phenomena
2. There are no higher levels of causal explanation
A. Causality flows among actual ontological parts, not to or from epistemic abstractions Under the standard macro level approach, we further claim that
3. There are no macro level stimuli, measurements and phenomena – they are epistemic illusions
A. Merely arbitrary and uninformed patterns of micro-level inputs or outputs between an experimental paradigm and a non-representational cognitive agent
Our claims originate from our unified process model of visual filling-in. We noticed that while the model explains all the phenomena, none of them actually existed. The epistemic phenomena arise from oversimplified and implicit folk-theories. Epistemic phenomena emerge from lack of knowledge, from lack of a Systems level theory.
We show the results – the visual demonstration for a variety of "phenomena". Your task:
Show me the macro level stimuli, measurement or phenomena!
It is only by getting rid of the macro level of analysis that one can hope to uncover a (micro) systems level and begin to causally unify explanations for cognition.
- In cognition, their are no accepted bridges between the mental and physical divide and “strong” ontological versions of emergence remain viable. Without empirical support, rational thought has produced a proliferating plethora of possible flavours and sources of emergence. It is noteworthy that the analytical tradition of cognition is based on static substances with properties – a substance metaphysics (SM).
- Purpose of the Emergic Memory Model
- Ground debate in simple (yet empirically real) parts, wholes & relations
- Basis for comparison and discussion among competing hypotheses
- Generate new insights and hypothesis
- Emergence is due to epistemological incompleteness and objectification errors
- Based on change, yet has substance-like properties
- A substance/process metaphysics hybrid
- The locus of emergic debate?
A Perceptual Learning and Matching System (PLMS) is hypothesized that pre-attends the auditory scene during sleep with the goal of classifying sounds into the background to be ignored or into the foreground which will cause arousal for further conscious action. It is also active while an individual is awake and is responsible for the automatic acquisition of capabilities such as non-conceptual linguistic components.
In the case of chaotic snoring sounds, the partner’s PLMS cannot detect a pattern and will awaken the partner, while the snorer’s PLMS will correlate the snoring sounds directly with the individual’s own breathing pattern and hence, ignore it.
The main purpose of this investigation is to understand the functional characteristics of PLMS during a sleep paradigm which is not confounded by consciousness nor rationality. PLMS is a hitherto new cognitive system not before studied.
A secondary purpose is to investigate whether the PLMS of the snorer’s partner can be trained to ignore the snoring sounds. Several experiments are proposed to verify this possibility. Partners of snorers may be more affected than the snorers themselves!
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- 2005-02-03 ESLA 1500: Intermediate English as a Second Language for Academic Purposes (Emese Bukor)
- 2005-02-03 FYSM 1205: Language and Power (Jaffer Sheyholislami)
- 2005-02-14 FYSM 1307: Psychology and Criminal Justice (Joanna Pozzulo)
- 2005-02-17 PSCI 2003: Canadian Political Institutions (Samuel A. Bottomley)
- 2005-03-07 FYSM 1307: Psychology and Criminal Justice (Joanna Pozzulo)
- 2005-03-09 FYSM 1104: Human Rights: Issues and Investigations (Abdulghany F. Mohamed)
- 2005-03-16 FYSM 1605: Language, Identity and Education (Petra Watzlawik-Li)
Related Publications
Leibovitz, D. P. (2005) Motivation. Handout produced for the Writing Tutorial Service of Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. (pp. 1-4). [doi: 10.13140/RG.2.1.1618.3521]
Leibovitz, D. P. (2005) Reformulating. Workshop presented to the "FYSM 1605: Language, Identity and Education" class. Carleton University, pp. 1-17, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. [doi: 10.13140/RG.2.1.3125.0402]
Leibovitz, D. P. (2005) Academic Papers. Workshop presented to the “FYSM 1104: Human Rights: Issues and Investigations” class. Carleton University, pp. 1-24, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. [doi: 10.13140/RG.2.1.1503.0242]
Leibovitz, D. P. (2005) Peer Review. Workshop presented to the “FYSM 1307: Psychology and Criminal Justice” class. Carleton University, pp. 1-10, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. [doi: 10.13140/RG.2.1.4386.6082]
Leibovitz, D. P. (2005) Framing & Synthesizing. Workshop presented to the "FYSM 1307: Psychology and Criminal Justice" class. Carleton University, pp. 1-7, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. [doi: 10.13140/RG.2.1.1109.8080]
Woods, E. & Leibovitz, D. P. (2005) ESL: Common Problems. Workshop presented to the "ESLA 1500: Intermediate English as a Second Language for Academic Purposes" class. Carleton University, pp. 1-3, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. [doi: 10.13140/RG.2.1.2617.1361]