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Why Is Mathematical Biology So Hard?
Michael C. Reed
http://www.ams.org/notices/200403/comm-reed.pdf
The Poincaré...
http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2668085 ... A software agent can be programmed to do this, easier than imitating a bee signalling...
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scientists using sophisticated techniques to probe the way the brain makes decisions - the fMRI captures the interplay of fear, anger, greed and altruism ...
'hatred of being found out' A stable pecking order is the lowest energy level for a group. But if the subordinate is totally wimpy, he could starve to death....
Being creative and unpredictable is important for intelligent, autonomous agents and AI. It is a cognitive adaptation to difficult, unpredictable and abruptly...
Richard Lowe's C# Blog Complex Adaptive Systems in C#: Part 1 - Intro http://blogs.geekdojo.net/richard/archive/2004/01/16/635.aspx Complex Adaptive Systems in...
...Exactly what the computer provides is the ability not to be rigid and unthinking but, rather, to behave conditionally. That is what it means to apply...
How could sophisticated mechanisms such as the flagellar motor or the adaptive immune system have evolved without some guiding hand? Henry Gee finds his answer...
Have you ever heard of the sentence "Crushing by elephant" ? No ? Then take a look at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crushing_by_elephant As you can...
"The history of any one part of the earth, like the life of a soldier, consists of long periods of boredom and short periods of terror." from "The Panda's...
Craig W. Reynolds is known for his "Boids", simulated creatures with simple generic flocking behavior. He is interested in artificial life and computer ...
Classes, roles, functions, niches and jobs are all similar: they describe the border or interface between the internal and the external region of a complex...
Some quotes from Shakespeare to decorate your work ;-) O world! world! world! thus is the poor agent despised! Toilus and Cressida, Act V, Scene X Let every...
AGENT Etymology: Has it's origin in the 15th and 16th century. From Latin agent-, the present participle of agere "to drive, lead, act, do." AGENT Definitions:...
"Anybody who's been in the armed forces will tell you that most of the time= you're doing nothing. Even if you're a frontline infantryman or driving a tank,...
Scientific and artistic advances require both high creativity. But there is a difference. Dean Keith Simonton says in "Greatness: Who makes history and why"...
ICANNGA 2005 - 7th International Conference on Adaptive and Natural Computing Algorithms to be held at University of Coimbra, Portugal, March 21st to 23rd,...
**** COND-MAT Condensed Matter Hide and seek on complex networks K. Sneppen, A. Trusina, M. Rosvall http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0407055 Self-organization of...
Victor R. Lesser is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts. His major research focus is on the control and organization of complex AI...
In my book I write on page 3 about fractals, that fractals are a standard "tool" of evolution to produce complex structures. Why are fractals a standard "tool"...
James Mark Baldwin was like William James an American psychologist who exerted influence on American psychology during its formative period in the 1890s. ...
George Herbert Mead writes in "The Definition of the Psychical" (see http://spartan.ac.brocku.ca/~lward/Mead/pubs/Mead_1903.html) about Baldwin, the mind-body...
"Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor." Arnold Toynbee Arnold Toynbee's "A Study of History" is a ten-volume analysis of...
Jochen, Is there a researcher/author who has in depth studied the area, culture, and claims of the supposedly 10,000 yr old Zoroastrian saga, where a man and...
... What kind of book ? Have you smoked anything ? Or taken any illegal stuff in litte white packages ? No, I don't know this myth, and I don't know what you...
Reading Baldwin or James is a pleasure, it is like reading Aristotle or Plato: everything is clear, simple, precise and easy to understand. *** Baldwin on...
As already mentioned in message 251, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CAS-Group/message/251, James M. Baldwin considered self-consciousness as the result of...
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