A Study of Noetics and Geographical Cognized

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  • Department of Urban and Environment Sciences, Institute of Remote Sensing and GIS, Peking University, Beijing 100081, China

Received date: 2000-10-20

  Revised date: 2000-12-12

  Online published: 2001-03-15

Abstract

Academician Qian Xuesen raises that “noetics” only studies processing and treatment law of intellectually related information instead of “cognize”, which is studied psychologically and physiologically. Such as the report of “Explaining the Ineffable: AI on the Topics of Intuition, Insight and Inspiration” given by Professor H. Simon in 1995. Essentially, computer is expected to simulate human brain, but it differs greatly from brain. Noetics discusses abstract thinking, which is logic thinking, visualized thinking, which is intuition and insight, and creativity thinking, which includes inspiration. The geographical thinking includes geographical abstract logic thinking, geographical visualized image thinking, and creativity virtual thinking. The study is approached in 4 sections: (1) about computer limitations; (2)about noetics; (3) about geographical noetics; and (4) about electron computer, photon computer, and gene computer.

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MA Ai nai . A Study of Noetics and Geographical Cognized[J]. Acta Geographica Sinica, 2001 , 56(2) : 232 -238 . DOI: 10.11821/xb200102012

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