The Loop of Cognition

How “intelligence” is constellated on a silicon basis

JournalIndustrie 4.0 Management
Issue Volume 36, 2020, Edition 2, Pages 52-56
Open Accesshttps://doi.org/10.30844/I40M_20-2_S52-56
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Abstract

In process engineering, one thinks of production operations that are controlled or regulated by sensors and actuators. And any realization of matter transformation is based on a physical substratum, which holds equally for living systems and their behaviour. The article distinguishes between three system levels: the functional level, the interface to the environment and the cognitive level of. Using these three levels, the learning cycle or the previous Cognitive Loop can be very well illustrated. If one compares with this way of distinction the Bio-Informatization of human intelligence with the technical development stages of mechanization, automation, regulation and deep learning, then the cybernetic-sociological term “operational closure” becomes understandable. It becomes obvious that in the context of a digitized culture of production and organization, we should be prepared for a new kind of cognitive loop based on silicon (SI), an intelligent system behavior via Si-Informatization, the so-called Artificial Intelligence.

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