Intelligent Systems And Their Societies

Systems

What is a System?
In the subsequent text, we will be talking continuously about "systems." Now, if we ask ten people to tell us what they mean by the word "system," we will probably get ten different answers. That's not good for communicating ideas successfully.

For the development of artificial intelligent systems (IS), a scientific sociology, and a scientific ethics, we need a simple, exact, and useful definition of system. The definition must be simple for easier deductions. The definition must be exact and expressed in previously defined words, so that our deductions can be exact. Finally, the definition must be useful, to permit interesting and useful deductions. So, let's see if we can reach such a definition.

Examples of "Systems"
We will start by discussing some examples of commonly known systems.

Communicating vessels ( Enter for continuos reading, like a book).
The Solar system ( Enter for continuos reading, like a book).
The system of the sun and earth; and the earth & moon system (For continuos reading, like a book - do not enter here now)
A set of three portable radio links (e.g., walky - talkies) ( Enter for continuos reading, like a book).
A bus full of people (For continuos reading, like a book - do not enter here now)
The British Empire ( Enter for continuos reading, like a book).
A spy (For continuos reading, like a book - do not enter here now).

Definition of the Concept "System"
Now we can define "system" in such a way that the definition fits all of the examples we explored above.

A system is:

Part of the universe (with a limited extension in space and time).
Stronger, more, correlations exist between one part of the system and another, than between this part of the system and parts outside the system.

See details in Definition of: "system" ( Enter for continuos reading, like a book).

Having such a definition, we should further explain our definition with the following comments:

Correlations, cause and effect ( Enter for continuos reading, like a book).
Frontier and Environment ( Enter for continuos reading, like a book).

Above we have given a definition of the concept "system" and also of some related concepts. They will be most useful to us during the rest of our investigations of the intelligent system and of the role these systems play in societies.

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