Hello everybody! My name is Stephan Koenig. I am a german cell biologist and new to this group. I am currently searching for a PhD position. In this search I...
Computational neuroscience is the study of how the brain represents and the world and how it computes. Being able to model the brain's neural circuits by...
Jochen, This garbage should not be allowed on this site! Mike ... From: christinewaylan To: CAS-Group@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 2:44...
Is there an "edge of science" similar to the famous "edge of chaos" principle ? Scientific revolutions often take place at the fine line between common facts...
Are agent-based simulations helpful to understand terrorists ? From the article: "What if we build a McDonald's in Mecca? Does this lead to more people joining...
Discovering Functional Communities in Dynamical Networks Cosma R. Shalizi et al. http://arxiv.org/abs/q-bio.NC/0609008 Emergence is coupled to scope, not level...
Evolution of indirect reciprocity Martin A. Nowak & Karl Sigmund http://www.ped.fas.harvard.edu/people/faculty/publications_nowak/nature05c.pdf Evolution of...
Crowdsourcing - a new concept http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdsourcing The Rise of Crowdsourcing http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.06/crowds.html...
From Butler Lampson, a computer pioneer working at Microsoft Research: "People have been inventing new ideas in computer systems for nearly four decades,...
The brain is an optimal example of fault tolerance: we have massive inherent redundancy and continuous rejuvenation through sleep. During a whole human life,...
The more specialized an organism or a cell is, the more it seems to loose its ability to replicate and regenerate itself. Why ? Stem cells are primal...
Is there a form of cancer in complex adaptive systems in general, not only in biological organisms, but also in ecological, economical, social or political...
In general, any self-* mechanism or property is acting on "the self", and it can destroy, damage or threaten the system - the self - if something goes wrong *...
Hi you all Docs. Let me recommend you to read a story titled A Sound of Thunder. This story is part of Ray Bradbury's book The Golden Apples of The Sun. Tell...
Is it possible to extend the classical computation based on turing machines and van Neumann computers by something else ? Peter Wegner says that "a paradigm ...
This paper from Eugene Eberbach and Peter Wegner looks interesting, too. It is named "Beyond Turing Machines". They argue that there are four principles or...
If we have a set of PARTICLES which form a liquid or a gas and start with an uneven distribution, then we will end up after a while in a uniform distribution,...
Scientific American reveals the frontier of science http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa004&articleID=0005726E-214A-1514-A14A83414B7F013F * Is String...
"The reason we say programming remains an art, not a science or an engineering discipline, is because we haven't as yet been able to break it down into...
The University of California, Berkeley, announced that it is delivering educational content, including course lectures and symposia, free of charge through...
The "emergence explained" paper from Russ Abbott has now been published in the journal Complexity. If you want to cite it: Russ Abbott, Emergence explained:...
NYTimes.com article by JOHN NOBLE WILFORD http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/12/science/earth/12extinct.html If rodents in Spain are any guide, periodic changes in...
... Dear All, Please find below (and in attached pdf) the Call for Workshops and Tutorials for ECAL2007, The 9th European Conference on Artificial Life. For...
At this new evolution timeline, the history of life unfolds in nearly 90 arresting images from renowned nature photographer Frans Lanting. Life: A Journey...
Richard E. Michod has written some interesting papers how the fitness of individuals and evolutionary units is related to evolutionary transitions, for...
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