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"EMERGENT COMPUTATIONAL THEORY: Research into the computational capacities of emergent structures in complex, self-organizing systems that can be used to measure the complexity of these structures. It recognizes emergent phenomena by their information processing capacity. That is, one can understand the emergent phenomena found in complex, adaptive systems by their their innate potential for processing information." https://lnkd.in/dBCZ5hh View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS this first of two weekends contemplating complex life cycles in nature. The bewildering complexity of many life cycles is impressive. Also impressive is how some complex life cycles have simplified during evolution. It is an example of how chance explores as many options as possible in a completely non-linear fashion. Nature is a massive random event generator, and most of her experiments fail. View in LinkedIn

COMPARTMENTS AND TIMING. "Adaptive decoupling could result from developmental compartmentalization, and within such developmental systems, heterochrony could be a route to the deletion of a life cycle phase." http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.2307/2937184/full View in LinkedIn

ADAPTIVE DECOUPLING. "A role of adaptive decoupling is generally supported by comparative data on the relative extent of morphological evolution of larvae and adults and on the frequency of elimination of phases from complex life cycles." http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.2307/2937184/full View in LinkedIn

FREEDOM FROM CONSTRAINTS. "Another explanation is that complex life cycles persist due to developmental constraints acting on particular phases; in particular, larvae may represent the conservation of traits of early development while adult traits evolve more freely in response to selection." http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.2307/2937184/full View in LinkedIn

DECOUPLING OF PROCESSES. "One explanation for the abundance and long-term persistence of complex life cycles is that they represent adaptive mechanisms for decoupling the developmental processes that underlie morphological traits of alternative phases, thereby allowing phases to respond independently to different selective forces." http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.2307/2937184/full View in LinkedIn

AGENT SOCIAL CONNECTEDNESS. "Natural self-organising systems function without central control and operate based on contextual local interactions. The particularity of self-organised systems is their capacity to spontaneously (without external control) produce a new organisation in case of environmental changes." https://lnkd.in/dfAjwzM View in LinkedIn

THE EDGE OF CHAOS. "Emergence occurs in a narrow possibility space lying between conditions that are too ordered and too disordered. This boundary or margin is the edge of chaos, which is always far from equilibrium. Near these equilibriums, a system has the ability to self-organise allowing an emergent phenomenon." https://lnkd.in/dfAjwzM View in LinkedIn