Machine invention systems: a (r)evolution of the invention process?

Genetic Programming as a Darwinian Invention Machine

Genetic programming is known to be capable of creating designs that satisfy prespecified high-level design requirements for analog electrical circuits and other complex structures. However, in the real world, it is often important that a design satisfy various non-technical requirements. One such requirement is that a design not possess the key characteristics of any previously known design. Th...

The Invention of Modern State Terrorism during the French Revolution

This essay discusses three aspects of the Terror (September 1793–July 1794): (1) The Institutions of the Terror: The Committee of General Security, the Committee of Public Safety, and the Revolutionary Tribunal; (2) the Theory of Terror: The unity and indivisibility of the people, the category of enemy of the people, and the concept of Revolution as a state of war against aristocratic/foreign c...

A Process Model for Concept Invention

In this paper, we propose a computational framework that models concept invention. The framework is based on conceptual blending, a cognitive theory that models human creativity and explains how new concepts are created. Apart from the blending mechanism modeling the creation of new concepts, the framework considers two extra dimensions such as origin and destination. For the former, we describ...

the invention of capitalism

The structure of invention

This paper explores the process by which radically novel technologies – ones such as radar, the turbojet, or the polymerase chain reaction – come into being. It shows that this process – “invention” – has a certain logical structure common to all cases. Invention is a process of linking some purpose or need with an effect that can be exploited to satisfy it. It may begin with a purpose or need ...