As the wind of time blows into the sails of space, the unfolding of the universe nurtures the evolution of matter under the pressure of information. From...
* Are humans and machines indistinguishable in 100 years? Discussion at Kuro5hin.org http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2000/11/30/5377/2018 * Why the future...
Why did the big bang not form a simple gas of particles, or condense into one big crystal ? I think one reason is evolution supports and creates *adaptive*...
I forgot to mention the whole title of the book. So here it is : (*) Emergence : The connected lives of ants, brains, cities, and software Steven Johnson, ...
... Nor do I. ... OK. 'developed' societies need to mature out of the outdated mentality that economic growth is always the ultimate goal. Already a major...
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An international team of six scientists has been involved in scanning thousands of images of the brains of people of all ages with a range of conditions, in...
... I think economic growth is a very interesting point. Growth seems to be essential for many complex adaptive systems. It is the natural process which...
http://www.brint.com/Systems.htm Organizations as Self-Adaptive Complex Systems and a lot of links to complexity and chaos sites http://www.calresco.org/ ...
Gerald Edelman about the immune system : ( in Bright Air, Brilliant Fire : On the Matter of Mind, Basic Books, 1992 ) "The immune system is a somatic selective...
Roger Lewin, the author of "Complexity - Life at the Edge of Chaos" argues in (*) "Does evolution inevitably generate ever more complex organisms and...
Articles from Simon A. Levin, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University http://www.eeb.princeton.edu/~slevin/ Complex Adaptive...
Rules for Cellular Automata (CA) can be classified in different ways. One way is Langton's Lambda Parameter. The Lambda Parameter is the fraction of entries in...
A small quote from the book "Complexity" of M. Mitchell Waldrop (Simon & Schuster, 1992), which captures the fascination of complexity and complex systems : ...
The Complexity Book from Waldrop is not mainly a book about complexity. It is the story of the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) and it's founders. Since the main...
How many Yahoo! groups are there with 5,6,7,...,10,20,40,...,100,200,400,.. members ? Most of the groups have only a few members, less then 5 or 10. Many...
Chaos seems to be an inherent property of both cellular automata (CA) and neural networks (NN), if certain conditions are matched. For neural networks there...
Interesting article from Glover, Pennock, Lawrence and Krovetz : Inferring hierarchical descriptions, Eric J. Glover, David M. Pennock, Steve Lawrence, and Bob...
Hello! Just found this link, it seems very interesting: Artis: Artificial Self-Replication and Evolution http://meme.phenome.org/ "The approach for this work...
... Yes, sounds interesting, but not very fascinating or exciting. I think we have seen this Langton Loop before. But the page has some interesting links at...
Any complex system, which consists of many mutually interacting components, has an "underlying" network. This canonical or natural network describes the...
Gravitational force vs. radiation pressure (Fusion of elements lighter than iron in Stars) All of the elements in the Universe that are heavier than hydrogen ...
**** Peter Schuster How does Complexity arise in Evolution Nature's recipes for mastering scarcity, abundance and unpredictability Peter Schuster SFI...
Last month there was an interesting Nature article : Understanding cells PAUL NURSE Nature Vol. 424 No. 6951 (21 August 2003) Page 883 "Many of the properties...
A Hurricane and a Galaxy look sometimes very similar, although a Galaxy has a diameter of several thousand light years and is usually million light years away...
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... Your ideas are interesting. Reality is indeed something subjective. Each of us has his/her own particular reality, and even a society or group has it's own...
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