Year: 2022

ORGAN SIGNALS. "In numerous organisms, the development of particular organs is predicated on chemical signals from symbionts. For example, the ovaries of the parasitoid wasp, Asobara, undergo apoptosis if signals from their Wolbachia symbionts are lacking." View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS this fragment that looks at a radical change in thinking in life sciences. No longer clear species built of individuals, but a continuum of creatures co-evolving. View in LinkedIn

OUR ABILITY TO PREDICT how any complex system reacts as it gains greater complexity is confounded in all systems by the phenomenon of emergence, or the development of unanticipated traits and phenomena. This is now well recognized in biological systems. Is it equally recognized in increasingly complex computing systems? View in LinkedIn

EMERGENCE may be the fly in the ointment that results in totally unexpected interactions between informational computer codes, giving us the inability to predict, nor control outcomes. The dramatic increase in computer code complexity in the short time it has been on the planet shows no sign of abating. Complex autonomous agents are the engine of emergent phenomena. View in LinkedIn

OCCLUDED VIEW. "Emergence is a process whereby larger entities, patterns, and regularities arise through interactions among smaller or simpler entities that themselves do not exhibit such properties." https://lnkd.in/dc4VwZz https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence View in LinkedIn

"EMERGENCE can be defined as the formation of order from disorder based on self-organisation." https://lnkd.in/duyAimW View in LinkedIn

ELEGANT DEFINITION. "Emergence is the phenomenon wherein complex, interesting high-level function is produced as a result of combining simple low-level mechanisms in simple ways." https://lnkd.in/dmJdbxk http://consc.net/notes/emergence.html View in LinkedIn

NON-OBVIOUS. "Emergent high-level properties are interesting, non-obvious consequences of low-level properties." https://lnkd.in/dmJdbxk http://consc.net/notes/emergence.html View in LinkedIn

AUTONOMOUS THINKING. "Emergence is the phenomenon wherein a system is designed according to certain principles, but interesting properties arise that are not included in the goals of the designer." https://lnkd.in/dmJdbxk http://consc.net/notes/emergence.html View in LinkedIn

"LARGE SCALE PATTERNS in the world are usually the result of the interactions of large numbers of smaller pieces that somehow combine in surprising ways to create the large-scale pattern. Such large-scale (macro-) patterns that arise out of the interactions of numerous interacting (micro-) "agents" are called "emergent phenomena" — that is, phenomena that emerge from interactions at a lower level or scale." https://lnkd.in/dPNW2Hi https://ccl.northwestern.edu/papers/MEE/ View in LinkedIn