Cyber-Physical-Social Intelligence

This book studies the symbiosis between humans, machines and nature, including the rules and emerging patterns of recognition, and the integration and optimization of various flows through cyberspace, physical space and social space. It unveils a reciprocal human-machine-nature symbiotic mechanism together with relevant rules on structuring and evolving the reality, and also proposes a multi-dimensional space for modelling the reality and managing the methodologies for exploring the reality. As such it makes a fundamental contribution to the creation and development of the research area cyber-physical-social intelligence, inspiring researchers and university students to explore the next-generation artificial intelligence and scientific methodology. It is suitable for readers with a basic understanding of computers and the natural sciences.
Next-generation artificial intelligence will extend machine and human intelligence to cyber-physical-social intelligence rendered by various interactions in cyberspace, physical space, and social space. With the transformational development of science and society, a multi-dimensional reality is emerging and evolving, leading to the generation and development of various spaces obeying different principles. A fundamental scientific problem is identifying the essential mechanism that structures and develops the reality emerging and evolving along various dimensions. Solving this problem requires the basic relations between humans, machines and reality to be identified and cyber-physical-social principles to be unveiled.