Here’s a press release for an open access technical paper. This shows that morphing of cells is not solely guided by an unidirectional information flow from extracellular cues, but is also determined by the morphology of the cell itself as shaped by prior events. Pierre-Paul GrasséSelf-organizationStigmergy
Given the significance of today’s date, I thought I’d repost details of a collaborator of mine’s paper in Cognitive Systems Research. 9/11Emergencehuman-human stigmergyNetwork topologySelf-organizationSimulationsituated cognitionSmall worldSocial networkSpontaneous orderstigmergicStigmergyTed Lewis
Open access article. complexitycomputational intelligencedistributed knowledgeSelf-organizationsocial epistemologyspontaneous ordersStigmergy
Chiara Chelini’s chapter. Chiara Chelinicomplexitydistributed cognitiondistributed knowledgeFolk psychologyFriedrich HayekHayek in Mindmirror neuronsphilosophical psychologySelf-organizationSensory OrderSimulation-theorySocialityspontaneous orders
Joaquín Fuster’s thoughts on Hayek. Cognitive neuroscienceFriedrich HayekHayek in MindJoaquin FusterSelf-organizationSensory Order
Interesting to see the theoretical inroads stigmergy is now making into the field of music. [t]he idea for this research is to create a new rhythmic generator technology. This system will be capable of generating multiple lines of percussion that sound natural. The synchronization will be self-organising and thus will be governed by a Stigmergic…
This published in Progress in Artificial Intelligence, March 2017, Volume 6, Issue 1, pp. 79–86 but available as a galley here. Artificial intelligenceFrancis HeylighenSelf-organizationstigmergic cognitionStigmergySwarm behavior
The very excellent Philanthropic Enterprise has teemed up with the Smith-Tocqueville Center at Michigan State University to issue a call for papers for the 2017 Conference on Voluntary Governance. Philanthropyphilosophy of philanthropySelf-organizationthe philanthropic enterprise
Duke Forest conference detailed programme now available. Celebrating the 50th anniversary of John von Neumann’s “Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata”. The C+T sponsored panel below: big databruce caldwellcomplexitycomputational economicscomputational intelligencecosmos & taxisEconomicsFrancesco Di IorioFriedrich HayekJohn von Neumannmarek hudikroger frantzSelf-organizationSelf-Reproducing Automata
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…
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