Month: September 2022

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 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 View in LinkedIn

HUMAN LIMITS. "Emergent systems are those in which even perfect knowledge and understanding may give us no predictive information." https://lnkd.in/dPMad4M View in LinkedIn

GREATER THAN THE SUM OF THE PARTS. "Emergence is the fact that a structure, not explicitly represented at a lower level, appears at a higher level. In the case of dynamic self-organising systems, with decentralised control and local interactions, intimately linked with self-organisation is the notion of emergent properties." https://lnkd.in/dfAjwzM View in LinkedIn

THE KEY ISSUE. "Predicting the behavior of complex decentralized pervasive computing systems before their deployment in a dynamic environment, as well as being able to influence and control their behavior in a decentralized way, will be of fundamental importance in the near future." https://lnkd.in/dMwveSp View in LinkedIn

SUMMATION MULTIPLIES. "At each level of complexity entirely new properties appear. Psychology is not applied biology, nor is biology applied chemistry. We can now see that the whole becomes not merely more, but very different from the sum of its parts." http://science.sciencemag.org/content/177/4047/393 View in LinkedIn

BIOLOGICAL SELF-ORGANIZATION. "Self-organization can be defined as the formation of complex patterned structures from units of less complexity by local internal interactions, without referring to an external blueprint or template. These internal interactions typically form feedback loops, thereby conferring robustness to the system. Other common features found in self-organizing systems are nonlinearity, symmetry breaking and the emergence of patterns from stochastic fluctuations." https://lnkd.in/dPFe4e3 View in LinkedIn

SELF-ORGANIZATION. "From a multi-agent systems development point of view, the central question is: how to program single agents so that, when taken as a whole, they self-organise." And predictably! https://lnkd.in/dfAjwzM View in LinkedIn

CODING IN NATURE. "What kind of programs might nature use? Given how complicated the things we see in nature are, we might think the programs it’s running must be really complicated. Maybe thousands or millions of lines of code. Like programs we write to do things." https://lnkd.in/d_xQqPE View in LinkedIn