CSE as Interactive Thinking by Society of Agents

Abstract

On the basis of a substantial and practical experience in CSE, it can be said, in short, that it involves solving many complex problems, discovering some aspects of a constantly changing project and implementing mutually entangled activities among the societies of agents (including humans, computer systems and/or automatic control systems), which attempt to carry out assigned tasks through mutual interaction.

[...] psychologists tried to imitate physicists - by searching for compact sets of laws to explain what happens inside our brains.

However, no such simple set of laws exists, because every brain has hundreds of parts, each of which evolved to do certain particular kinds of jobs; some of them recognize situations, others tell muscles to execute actions, others formulate goals and plans, and yet others accumulate and use enormous bodies of knowledge.

And though we don’t yet know enough about how each of those brain-centers works, we do know their construction is based on information that is contained in tens of thousands of inherited genes, so that each brain-part works in a way that depends on a somewhat different set of laws

Marvin Lee Minsky [341, p. 2].