Title Participants Abstract "Hyperscale Puts the Sapiens into Homo" "Ronald Cottam, Willy Ranson, Roger Vounckx" "The human mind’s evolution owes much to its companion phenomena of intelligence, sapience, wisdom, awareness and consciousness. In this paper we take the concepts of intelligence and sapience as the starting point of a route towards elucidation of the conscious mind. There is much disagreement and confusion associated with the word intelligence. A lot of this results from its use in diverse contexts, where it is called upon to represent different ideas and to justify different arguments. Addition of the word sapience to the mix merely complicates matters, unless we can relate both of these words to different concepts in a way which acceptably crosses contextual boundaries. We have established a connection between information processing and processor “architecture” which provides just such a linguistic separation, and which is applicable in either a computational or conceptual form to any context. This paper reports the argumentation leading up to a distinction between intelligence and sapience, and relates this distinction to human “cognitive” activities. Information is always contextual. Information processing in a system always takes place between “architectural” scales: intelligence is the “tool” which permits an “overview” of the relevance of individual items of information. System unity presumes a degree of coherence across all the scales of a system: sapience is the “tool” which permits an evaluation of the relevance of both individual items and individual scales of information to a common purpose. This hyperscalar coherence is created through mutual inter-scalar observation, whose recursive nature generates the independence of high-level consciousness, making humans human. We conclude that intelligence and sapience are distinct and necessary properties of all information processing systems, and that the degree of their availability controls a system’s or a human’s cognitive capacity, if not its application. This establishes intelligence and sapience as prime ancestors of the conscious mind. However, to our knowledge, there is no current mathematical approach which can satisfactorily deal with the native irrationalities of information integration across multiple scales, and therefore of formally modeling the mind." "Hierarchy and the Nature of Information" "Ronald Cottam, Willy Ranson" "We address the nature of information from a systemic structural point of view. Starting fromthe Natural hierarchy of living systems, we elucidate its decomposition into two partial hierarchiesassociated with its extant levels and inter-level regions, respectively. External observation of ahierarchical system involves the generation of approximate hyperscalar representations of these twopartials, which then reintegrate to give a singular metascalar result. We relate Havel’s categories ofreality and Peirce’s categories of experience to this result, and indicate that the ultimate result of thereintegration of hyperscalar data and context is a sign which is information." "Getting (Empirically) Back To(wards)(pre-)(Existential) Basics" "Willy Ranson" "In the Hierarchy Theory SIG of the 2006 ISSS meeting in Sonoma we presented a paper entitled ""Living in Hyperscale: Internalization as a Search for Reunification"", which concluded as follows: ""We view our universe's evolution, and its entire post-'big bang' history, as an assembly of interacting individual attempts to 'turn back the clock' to the intimate unification of a pre-'big bang' state."" The core underlying hypothesis of our argument was that the essential process of Nature is its evolution from the 'big bang singularity' of global unification towards the 'ecosystemic multiplicity' of local differentiation. But why has this evolution taken place? And why is Nature still evolving all around us? The following sentence of the paper stated that: ""Relativity - the cause of localization and differentiation, and of the inevitability of inter-locational delay and informational incompleteness - precludes any 'factual' achievement of this aim, leaving only the surrogate possibility of virtual reunification through environmental internalization."" Relativity certainly precludes any complete 'factual' achievement of reunification, but not a partial shift from 'factual' analog quasi-unification towards 'factual' digital quasi-unification. We now believe that the 'attractor' of unification is not only responsible for environmental internalization, but that it is the driving force behind evolution. Attempted reunification is not only 'virtual'; it lies at the root of natural survivalist pragmatism: it is the very nature of reality itself! Everything around us, and in us, is a process of, or the result of an attempted (systemic) reunification. We present the image of an initially analog universe, perturbed by the 'injection' of asymmetry at the 'big bang', which progressively builds more complex structures in a mistaken bid to regain its undifferentiated wholeness. At every stage of its evolutionary localization, in the creation of strings, of fermions and bosons, of atoms and molecules, of bio-chemicals and organisms, of scale, hierarchy and hyperscale, its target is to re-establish homogeneity of communication, through the development of energy-based digitality in place of peaceful analog communion. We do not presume that the universe is a 'living entity', but point out that life is a natural emergence from the low-level identity-retaining awareness of elementary Newtonian interactions. Rather than exposing the historical endeavors which led up to the acceptance of this expanded point of view we present in this paper an empirical justification for its adoption, through many examples from a multiplicity of natural science, systems science, ecological, sociological, technological, psychological and neurological domains." "A Biosemiotic View on Consciousness Derived from System Hierarchy" "Willy Ranson" "We strongly believe that high levels of conceptual consciousness are impossible without embodiment, and that therefore any idea that consciousness could transcend the physicality of life is mistaken. The derivation of consciousness from lower more localized forms of awareness poses a more pragmatic question: why, from a high level of consciousness, are we apparently unaware of these lower awarenesses? The adoption of a carrier-plus-signal description for the mutual observation of the two hyperscales suggests that these lower level awarenesses may well be present, but that they may not occupy the center of attention, and may only be recognizable as lower-level 'neural noise'. Striking support for neural birationality comes from the degree to which the two hemispheres of the brain apparently concentrate on different styles of processing (Glickstein and Berlucchi 2010): ""linear, sequential, logical, symbolic for the left hemisphere and holistic, random, intuitive, concrete, nonverbal for the right"" (Rock 2004), corresponding to the dual rationalities we have described, and to the primitives of logic and emotion, respectively (Cottam et al. 2008b)." "Bi-Sapient Structures for Intelligent Control" "Willy Ranson" "The control of autonomous systems requires provision of at least a synthetic form of intelligence or sapience. While descriptions of these are common, there is no current model which relates their definitions to the physical structure of an information-processing system. Sapience is a direct result of hierarchical structure. In this chapter we describe the self consistent general model of a birational hierarchy, and associate data, information, understanding, sapience and wisdom with aspects of its constitution. In a birational hierarchy there are two sapiences, one associated with each hyperscalar correlation, and their interactions support the most general information processing relationship - wisdom. One and the same general model applies both to material structure and information-processing structure: the brain is the unique example of material-structural and information-processing-structural correspondence. We attribute the stabilization of dynamic self-observation to anticipative stasis neglect, and propose that neuron mirroring provides a useful metaphor for all of the brain s information-processing, including the bi-sapient interactions which generate auto-empathy. We conclude that hyperscalar bi-sapience is responsible for Metzinger s -illusory self-, for Theory of Self, presence transfer, and Theory of Mind, and indicate how multiscalar access from within hyperscale provides a massive advantage in promoting survival." "Towards Bridging the Gap between Life and Physics." "Willy Ranson" "Examination of the scale properties of living organisms and the electronic configuration of crystalline structures suggests that related modeling may be used for both. This paper comments on individual and common properties of the two systems and draws a comparison between them. Both exhibit multiple 'scales' separated by complex or forbidden regions and a global 'overview' of their scale properties. We conclude that the analogy may provide a fruitful route towards extension of the modeling of both living organisms and electronic materials, by permitting bootstrapping cross-modeling between them." "Towards Cross-Modeling between Life and Solid StatePhysics" "Willy Ranson" "We develop a hierarchical model for an organism which is primarilybased on structural scale. This is then compared with the Kronig-Penney modelfor electron propagation in a crystal. Both models exhibit similar multi-levelstructure, where the levels are separated by complex or forbidden regions. Weconclude that cross-modeling between natural hierarchy and electron bandstructures may help in formulating future models of biological systems." "Closing the Gap between Life and Physics" "Willy Ranson" "Examination of the scalar properties of living organisms and the electronic configuration of crystalline structures suggests that related modeling may be used for both. This paper comments on individual and common properties of the two systems and draws a comparison between them. Both exhibit multiple 'scales' separated by complex or forbidden regions and a global 'overview' of their scalar properties. We conclude that the analogy may provide a fruitful route towards extension of the modeling of both living organisms and electronic materials, by permitting bootstrapping cross-modeling between them." Join-Up-To(m) "Grzegorz Kielanski, Tim Hellemans, Benny Van Houdt" "Various load balancing policies are known to achieve vanishing waiting times in the large-scale limit, that is, when the number of servers tends to infinity. These policies either require a communication overhead of one message per job or require job size information. Load balancing policies with an overhead below one message per job are called hyperscalable policies. While these policies often have bounded queue length in the large-scale limit and work well when the overhead is somewhat below one, they show poor performance when the communication overhead becomes small, that is, the mean response time tends to infinity when the overhead tends to zero even at low loads. In this paper, we introduce a hyperscalable load balancing policy, called Join-Up-To(m), that remains effective even when the communication overhead tends to zero. To study its performance under general job size distributions, we make use of the ""queue at the cavity"" approach. We provide explicit results for the first two moments of the response time, the generating function of the queue length distribution and the Laplace transform of the response time. These results show that the mean response time only depends on the first two moments of the job size distribution." Acsim "Stig Bosmans, Siegfried Mercelis, Marc Ceulemans, Joachim Denil, Peter Hellinckx" "With the rise of internet-connected devices a novel approach for application testing and validation is required. This paper explores the possibility to test hyper-scale Internet of Things environments using state-of-the-art simulation techniques. More specifically, a Software In The Loop simulation (SIL) method is introduced which enables the interaction between virtual simulated models and actual real-life Internet of Things devices. Furthermore, we present Acsim, a custom hyper scalable and distributed agent-based simulation framework to test and validate Internet Of Things applications. Finally, a use-case developed in the Acsim framework is presented to demonstrate both the SIL and hyperscalable capabilities."