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   From: ondra@dynawest.cz   
      
   Hello,   
      
   I am a student of IT science caught by the AI and willing for more knowledge.   
   I hope I'll find some soulmates here.   
      
   I have learned about most types of neural networks, fuzzy systems, prolog &   
   lisp, functional programming, genetic algorithms, evolutionary programming,   
   etc.   
      
   But all of it seems to be just "inspired" by the nature, and is based on   
   mathematical models. Most of them has very narrow spectrum of problems it can   
   solve, compared to what AI is going to achieve as it's final goal (?) -   
   universal pondering, cogitating    
   system.   
      
   I'm not going to ask dumb questions like "how big the NN should be to learn it   
   think" and such. My question is:   
      
   Is there some AI theory ( or idea / area of research aiming to create a   
   theory) which would cover most currently known concepts and use them together?   
   What about some fuzzy graph-like database of n-tuples holding all knowledge of   
   an intelligent system, perhaps using neural networks to create the fuzzy   
   relations and to perform tranformations of both short-term knowledge (aka.   
   cogitation) and long-term    
   knowledge (learning, memorizing, creating memories) ?   
      
   Is there some such research?   
      
   I accept any references; I have a partial access to Springer, IEEE, and such.   
   It may be a frequent question, but in the flood of information trash all over   
   the internet, I was not able to find something valuable.   
      
   Thanks,   
   Ondra Zizka   
      
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