Deterministic Autonomous Systems

The term intelligence in the phrase artificial intelligence suggests that intelligence is the key characteristic to be analyzed and synthesized by the research discipline. However, for many researchers the objective of this discipline is the scientific understanding of all aspects of complex behavior. For some, this objective might be limited to the traditional goals of scientific psychology: understanding humans. For others, it might include other species and artificial systems. In either case, the enterprise is driven by psychological questions because humans are the extreme of the known range of possibility that drives our curiosity.