... representations. The payment should be either in kind (as in more ancient justice systems) or in cash (as in modern Western civilization). The ... ...certain that robots will fully and always implement the three laws? Only recursive systems are predictable in principle, though, at times, their co... ...es the Laws from a few vantage points: philosophy, artificial intelligence and some systems theories. An immediate question springs to mind: HOW wi... ... – and how much to the robot itself? When a robot decides finally to ignore its own programming – how are we to gain information regarding this mome... ...linguistic theories seek to isolate the universals of language, so as to render all languages capable of translation - but they are still a long way...

...ugh it emerges as a main property of the whole, as an extensive parameter of macro systems. In my doctoral dissertation (Ph.D. Thesis available on ... ...econd Law of Thermodynamics predicts the gradual energetic decay of physical closed systems ("entropy"). Arguably, the Universe as a whole is precis... ... order is often fighting disorder for dominance. In other words, in localized, open systems, order sometimes tends to increase and, by definition, ... ...s a language like no other. Still, it suffers from the drawbacks that afflict other languages. The structure of our language, its inter-relatedness ... ...ermine how we understand, describe and explain Nature and our place in it. Granted, languages are living things and develop constantly (consider sla... ...nd emergentists ignore the existence of a hierarchy of scientific theories and meta-languages. They believe - and it is an article of faith, not of ... ...rprising array of fields: from language to social norms, from semiotics to computer programming, and from logic to animal behavior. In 1700, the En...