Yingxu Wang

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What are the 10 Fundamental Mysteries and Challenges (FMCs) in Software Science and Engineering (SSE) (1/10)?

It is recognized that our current programming languages are anti-productive because they are not designed for machine-enabled software generation. In order to put the horse before the cart, basic...

30 March 2022 8,521 0 View

What are the 10 Fundamental Mysteries and Challenges (FMCs) of human and robot vision in AI and brain/cognitive/neural sciences (9/10)?

FMC-9: How does the long-term memory (LTM) in visual cortex be retrieved in order to rebuild the image in short-term memory (STM) for perceptions and reasoning?

26 February 2022 1,152 1 View

What have worsen the jet-lag effect on modern long-haul flight?

A recent discovery of mine reveals that the entertainment video system right back a passenger’s head on the airplane seat has caused severer jet-lag effect than usual in long-haul flight. What...

07 October 2017 7,731 0 View

How would driverless cars embody eye contact with human drivers on road?

Many driving conventions and unwritten rules are highly dependent on eye contacts between drivers such as those of 4-point stop crossing, change lanes, U-turn, and narrow road passing etc. In...

05 September 2014 3,787 5 View

Why can't humans remember things and experiences from the early phase of life until preschool time?

Young babies before three-year-old cannot normally remember their life experience except those of parent recalls. a) What is the cognitive and neurological foundation of this special phenomenon...

03 September 2014 5,210 26 View

Turing test in action: What are simple things that computers cannot do?

Human Interaction Proof (HIP) are technologies widely applied in web-based online services and applications for distinguishing human and computer (software) users in order to prevent unwanted high...

02 May 2014 2,228 11 View

Why do humans and advanced species need sleep? What is the role of sleeping in learning and long-term memory (LTM) establishment?

More and more evidence discovered in brain science, cognitive science, and cognitive informatics reveal that the human brain dispatches autonomous/unconscious learning and LTM establishment tasks...

01 November 2013 8,196 27 View

Were conventional computer commands such as “Ctrl+Alt+Del” & “http://..” necessary? How can inconvenient common practices be optimized?

Recent reports indicate that the original designers of these combined keyboard instructions or Internet address prefix have publicly expressed their regret to the inconvenience of such massively...

01 October 2013 4,015 2 View

What are the differences between iterative and recursive structures in computing? Are the latter a special case of the former or vice versa?

- Is there functional equivalence between the iterative and recursive structures? - What are the cognitive complexities of the iterative and recursive structures?

01 October 2013 1,269 38 View

Are right-/left-handers a gene-determined allocation or a learned habit? For either answer you'd prefer, why is the ratio of distributions not even?

Statistics shows that the ratio of right-/left-handers is 90% vs. 10% in the population.

26 September 2013 6,535 37 View

Why did we fail to formally explain the basic system principle, divide-and-conquer (DAC), in software engineering though we empirically think so?

The basic properties of software have not yet rigorously studied in software engineering. The size or functional complexity of software is one of the examples. The conventional model of software...

19 September 2013 1,764 1 View

Does the artificial neural network (ANN, Hopfield 1982) possibly borrow a partially correct model from neuroscience and neuroinformatics?

It’s found in neuroscience and neuroinformatics, that there are only three basic forms of neurons known as the association, sensory, and motor neurons in human nervous system [Marieb, 1992; Wang...

06 September 2013 1,337 26 View

What are the basic mechanisms of human social systems from the perspectives of cognitive sociology and long life-span systems of history?

When we investigate into the sociological foundations of collective intelligence and group behaviors, a finding is that any social system at any level is a passive structure. - The passive...

06 September 2013 4,410 2 View

What is the nature of creativity? Is creativity born or trained? What are the basic attributes of inventors and creative researchers?

- Creativity is the intellectual ability to make creations, inventions, and discoveries that brings novel relations, entities, and/or unexpected solutions into existence [Wang, 2009, 2013]....

05 September 2013 9,970 48 View

What are the necessary conditions of a humor or joke? How can the level of amusement of a humor be measured?

- Can humor and its properties be modeled mathematically? - Is there a general model of humor in a formal scheme?

05 September 2013 3,854 2 View

What made mankind different from other advanced species? Is it because of walking, working, making tools, using languages or collective intelligence?

Seeking the basic cognitive and intelligent properties of humans.

30 August 2013 3,220 26 View

What is cognitive informatics? How do the brain and mind be coherently explained at the logical, cognitive, physiological & neurological levels in CI?

Cognitive Informatics (CI) is a transdisciplinary enquiry on the internal information processing mechanisms and processes of the brain and the mind, the underlying abstract intelligence theories...

23 August 2013 8,221 6 View

How can behavioral process algebra be used to deal with the cognitive semantics of “to-do” sentences?

In cognitive linguistics, natural languages are divided into three categories known as nouns (to-be), verbs (to-do), and modifiers. Therefore, the semantics of “to-do” structures in linguistics...

23 August 2013 3,962 1 View

Why are there only two meta-types of “to-be” and “to-do” semantics in any language? What are the cognitive linguistic models of them?

Seeking formal models of cognitive linguistics.

23 August 2013 4,937 1 View

How is the semantics of a sentence comprehended based on its syntactic structures in cognitive linguistics?

Is syntactic analysis merely sufficient? What are the roles of semantic analysis and synthesis?

23 August 2013 9,043 4 View

Is there a generic model (syntactic pattern) in a language where any grammatically valid sentence can be treated as an instance of it?

Seeking a deductive approach to language analysis and translation.

23 August 2013 942 3 View

What is the compositional semantics of structures beyond sentences in cognitive semantics such as those of a paragraph and an essay?

- Seeking methodologies for composing cognitive semantics at higher levels.

23 August 2013 7,593 4 View

Will cognitive computers be the next generation of intelligent computers closer to the nature of human reasoning?

The philosophy and causality can be denoted as: Data Computers (Turing & von Neumann) vs. Knowledge Computers (ICIC, http://www.ucalgary.ca/icic/). A fundamental observation is that humans...

16 August 2013 5,743 28 View

Are conventional mathematics sufficient for modeling brain mechanisms and mental phenomena in cognitive computing and computational intelligence?

Basic causality: - Numbers (for data, conventional) vs. Hyperstructures (for knowledge, contemporary) - The domain of human reasoning is hyperstructures (H) of concepts and...

16 August 2013 6,821 46 View

What's your perception on the next scientific revolution following the agriculture, industry, energy & information revolutions in human civilization?

Will it be “intelligence revolution [Wang, 2013]” to fulfill the ultimate level of human needs? What kinds of new products will be resulted in the intelligence revolution? (ICIC,...

16 August 2013 3,999 3 View