Mathematical Structures of Natural Intelligence

Part I. 1. Introduction.- 2. What is Structure?.- 3. Category Theory.- 4. How to Trick the Demon of Entropy.- 5. Neural Networks and Groupoids.- Part II. 6. Natural Intelligence in the Wild.- 7. Natural Intelligence is about meaning.- 8. From Identity to Equivalence.- 9. On Negation.- 10. Modeling.- 11. On Structures and Wholes.- Part III. 12. Let's Talk About Nothing.- 13. King Richard is a Lion.- 14. The Madman and the Dentist.- 15. Discussion.- References.- Author index.- Subject index.

Yair Neuman is a Professor at The Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and the Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience at Ben-Gurion University. He holds a BA in Psychology (Major) and Philosophy (Minor) and a PhD in Cognition (Hebrew University, 1999), and his expertise is in studying complex cognitive, social, and symbolic systems from a unique interdisciplinary approach. Professor Neuman has published numerous papers and five academic books and has been a visiting scholar or professor at MIT, the University of Toronto, the University of Oxford, and the Weizmann Institute of Science. Beyond his purely academic work, he has developed state-of-the-art algorithms for social and cognitive computing, such as those he developed for the IARPA metaphor project (ADAMA group).