... From: Russ Abbott <Russ.Abbott@...> Subject: Re: [CAS-Group] Re: Shadow emergence - the ghost in the machine To: CAS-Group@yahoogroups.com Date:...
Hi Russ, I finally had some time to read your paper "Abstraction Abstracted" and it is very interesting. If I understand correctly, you're proposing that ...
Hi Telmo, Thanks for looking at my abstraction paper. I completely agree with you about nature's abstractions. They don't involve self-awareness at all. (See ...
"My Ph.D. is in Computer Science, and I am a professor of com- puter science. But at heart I'm a programmer. The job title of programmer is commonly denigrated...
The (embryonic) stem cell is indeed the "base class" of many inherited cells. In this sense you can consider the bodies of most biological life-forms as...
Tokens which circulate in rings and waves which spread in general networks are very popular and fundamental topics in distributed algorithms. "Wireless sensor...
The Japanese artist Kobayashi Kokei said: "A good painting is one that makes us sense the cosmos, even if it shows only a single persimmon." Applied to Bach it...
The machine which is your body definitely exists. The traces you leave behind, too. And the work you do. The rest is nebulous. 'you', in the sense of a...
The presentation in "the story of stuff" is a bit too simple, but I guess many politicians have not realized completely what it says. Everyone sees only the...
Do people join social networks because someone they're close to (such as husband, friend, colleague or roommate) personally convinced them to? Interesting...
Russ, in your paper "Putting Complex Systems to Work" which was published recently in the complexity journal you mention online communties and multi-sided ...
Hey Jochen, This list is having a number of good discussions. Thanks for mentioning "Putting Complex Systems to Work." There were so many versions of it that...
Here are some further thoughts. What now strikes me as interesting is the difference between mechanisms (like evolution and market mechanisms) that encourage...
... From: Russ Abbott <Russ.Abbott@...> Subject: Re: [CAS-Group] Re: Shadow emergence - the ghost in the machine To: CAS-Group@yahoogroups.com Date:...
thanks for the detailed reply, very interesting ideas. Quality control for user-generated content seems to be a fundamental problem. I have to think about it a...
... Here are some further thoughts. ... What now strikes me as interesting is the difference between ... mechanisms (like evolution and market mechanisms) that...
An incresing number of sites tries to give the user a quick glance on what's happening on the internet and their social network, while being a platform for...
Do opposites attract or do people look for partners similar to themselves? I often wondered how it is possible to code something as attractiveness in the...
NASA images from the Chandra X-ray Observatory suggest a massive black hole at the heart of a galaxy is emitting a powerful stream of radiation that is...
This long New York Times article examines the current debate about whether, and if so at what point in a pregnancy, fetuses feel pain. It also discusses the...
Daniel Dennett about consciousness Lecture on Consciousness (Pt 1 of 6) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIdxbJyvfNw Lecture on Consciousness (Pt 2 of 6) ...
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