Complex Adaptive Systems: Views from the Physical, Natural, and Social Sciences
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Fractal Localism: Political Rigor and Clarity under Complexity
Well distilled. Complex adaptive systemcomplexityConservatismembedded liberalismFriedrich HayekNassim Nicholas Talebrationality
Cryptographic stigmergy
As someone who more or less tracks the various (theoretical and practical) applications of stigmergy this one here is a first. I faintly grasp the issues in blockchain and cryptocurrency so I’m curious as to what stigmergy might bring to my understanding. Correspondingly, I’m curious as to what those in blockchain-crypto circles think of stigmergy?…
Stigmergy in a water environment
This is the first time I’ve come across discussion of stigmergy in a fluid (water) context. Check out this freely available paper here. Stigmergy is a biological phenomenon that has been adopted by robotics, referring to environmentally mediated communication where information about building actions is encoded in the partially built structure. For example, beavers build…
Complexity and Stupidity
Catching up on Sam Harris’ podcasts — this one is of particular interest. Sam’s guest, David Krakauer, I recall from taking the debut Santa Fe Institute freebie course a few years back run by the excellent Melanie Mitchell. Do check out the SFI’s free programmes, notably SFI’s Complexity Explorer: it beats many a fee-paying university course. In any event, if you…
The Emergence of Groups and Inequality through Co-Adaptation
The title of this post denotes a newly published open access paper. Especially of note is section 2 The Stigmergy Game. Good to see more and more applications of stigmergy to the human-human dimension. I’d be interested to hear from my economist chums on their take on this paper since I have mentioned economics as a…
Proceedings of the Artificial Life Conference 2016
Available for free download here. The special theme of the conference: How can the synthetic study of living systems contribute to societies: scientifically, technically, and culturally? The goal of the conference theme is to better understand societies with the purpose of using this understanding for a more efficient management and development of social systems. AutopoiesisCarlos GershensonCollective…
Goodbye to the genius who changed the way we think (and you didn’t know even know it)
John Holland’s obituary by Scott Page (H/T Melanie Mitchell) John Holland’s complexity studies helped us understand what this complex bacterial colony has in common with your brain, political theory, ants, computers, urban life and more. antsComplex adaptive systemcomplexitycomplexity studiesComputer Sciencejohn hollandMelanie MitchellScott PageSpontaneous orderStigmergy
JOHN HOLLAND
It has been reported that John Holland has passed away. Complex adaptive systemcomplexitycomplexity studiesEmergencegenetic algorithmsjohn hollandsanta fe instituteStigmergy
Making Visible “the Invisible Hand”: The Mission of Social Simulation
Cristiano Castelfranchi’s interesting article. For more on the invisible hand see Propriety and Prosperity: New Studies on the Philosophy of Adam Smith with the following contributions: Metaphor Made Manifest: Taking Seriously Smith’s ‘Invisible Hand’ by Eugene Heath The ‘Invisible Hand’ Phenomenon in Philosophy and Economics by Gavin Kennedy Instincts and the Invisible Order: The Possibility of…
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