Jazz as a Spontaneous Order
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Comos + Taxis 1:1
complexitycosmos & taxisdistributed knowledgeFriedrich Hayekpolitical economySpontaneous order
Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
Looking forward to another cracking read by Taleb bitch-slapping the IYIs No.Education was, at some point great, fast becoming rent-seeking for a group of parasites IYIs who indoctrinate our youths. pic.twitter.com/IklI1CYsp0 — NassimNicholasTaleb (@nntaleb) September 23, 2017 complexityintellectual yet idiotNassim Nicholas Talebprobabilityrent-seekingskin in the game
Stigmergic epistemology, stigmergic cognition
Cognitive Systems Research Volume 9, Issues 1–2, March 2008, Pages 136-149. As improbable as this might sound there is a bit of Hayek, Oakeshott and Marx in here. complexitydispersed knowledgedistributed cognitionParticle Swarmstigmergic cognitionstigmergic epistemologyStigmergy
Propriety and Prosperity: New Studies on the Philosophy of Adam Smith
Adam Smithcomplexitydistributed knowledgeEconomicsemergent orderinvisible handLiberalismpropriety and prosperity
Stigmergy-based modeling to discover urban activity patterns from positioning data
New working paper freely available for download here. In this paper, we present an innovative approach based on stigmergy that aims to handle both complexity and dimensionality of these data, providing an analysis of urban crowds dynamics by exploiting taxi GPS data. complexitydispersed knowledgedistributed cognitionhuman-human stigmergysituated cognitionstigmergicstigmergic cognitionstigmergic epistemologyStigmergy
Cosmos + Taxis 4:1
Latest issue now available. complexitycosmos+taxisFriedrich HayekLiberalismspontaneous orders
Global Patterns of Synchronization in Human Communications
The very excellent Yaneer Bar-Yam et al have a new paper published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface and freely available as a preprint here. Complex systemscomplexitycomputational intelligenceglobal brainNew England Complex Systems InstituteSocial mediatwitterYaneer Bar-Yam
Models of Environment: Full Draft
Marcin Miłkowski has made available a full draft of his chapter from Minds, Models and Milieux: Commemorating the Centennial of the Birth of Herbert Simon. Bounded RationalitycomplexityExtended MindHerbert SimonMarcin Miłkowskisituated cognition
Gene-Modified Ants Shed Light on How Societies Are Organized
This from the New York Times (H/T Shannon Selin) “Our ultimate goal is to have a fundamental understanding of how a complex biological system works,” Dr. Kronauer said. “I use ants as a model to do this.” As he sees it, ants in a colony are like cells in a multicellular organism, or like neurons…
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