The idea of this book is to establish a new scientific discipline, "noology," under which a set of fundamental principles are proposed for the characterization of both naturally occurring and artificial intelligent systems.

The methodology adopted in Principles of Noology for the characterization of intelligent systems, or "noological systems," is a computational one, much like that of AI. Many AI devices such as predicate logic representations, search mechanisms, heuristics, and computational learning mechanisms are employed but they are recast in a totally new...