Emergent Systems: A Discussion
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During fall 2004, we are meeting every Thursday morning at 8 a.m. in Park 230, the Emergent Intelligence Laboratory. Coffee and muffins start the meeting off, followed by a presentation and discussion. Open to all.
People in a variety of disciplines
and walks of life are in the business of trying to make sense
of the world. In so doing, all make use of conceptual frameworks,
habitual ways of thinking that influence both how one tries
to make sense of new observations and the new questions one
asks (and doesn't ask). These conceptual frameworks are themselves
reflections of the kinds of observations that have and can
be made.
Computers, like telescopes and microscopes,
have opened a whole new world of possible observations. Because
of the rapidity with which they can do well-defined calculations,
computers have made it possible to explore the consequences
of relatively simple interactions of relatively simple things
in ways never before possible (try, for example, the
Game of Life or Simple
Networks, Simple Rules).
From this new capability are emerging
in different arenas significant insights into phenomena long
believed too complex for serious analysis ... and perhaps
a new quite general conceptual framework applicable in a variety
of disciplines and practical contexts. People who are interested
the emergence of "emergent systems" as a way of thinking are
invited to join this discussion by contacting Ted Wong, Doug Blank, or Paul Grobstein.
emergent.brynmawr.edu/eprg/ - a collaborative, interactive
hypertext discussion of emergent systems
Complex Systems
on Serendip - additional resources
| "If
you knew the algorithm and fed it back say ten thousand times,
each time there's be a dot somewhere on the screen. You'd
never know where to expect the next dot. But gradually you'd
start to see this shape, because every dot will be inside
the shape of this leaf. ... The unpredictable and the predetermined
unfold together to make everything the way it is. It's how
nature creates itself, on every scale, the snowflake and the
snowstorm." Tom Stoppard, Arcadia, 1993.
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September 9, 2003
| Organizational Meeting
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September 16
| Paul Grobstein, on Buchanan's
''Nexus''
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September 23
| Tim Burke, on Emergence in Humanities
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September 30
| Tim Burke, continued
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October 7
| Jim Marshall, on Metacat, a
model of human analogy-making
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October 14
| Fall Break!
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October 21
| Jan Trembley, on Emergent
Pedagogy
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October 28
| Ted Wong, on Modules in Genetic
Networks
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November 4
| Mark Kuperberg, on Emergence
in Economics
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November 11
| Anne Dalke, on Trees and Rhizomes
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November 18
| Deepak Kumar, on Emergence and
Problem Solving: Reflections from a Computer Science Perspective
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December 2
| Alan Baker, on The Emergence
of Everything (PPT, 338KB)
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January 22
| Essays on Emergence, a modest proposal |
January 29
| Paul Grobstein, on From
the Active Inanimate to Models to Stories to Agency |
February 5
| Paul Grobstein, continued |
February 12
| Ted Wong, Why Evolution
By Natural Selection Isn't Emergent |
February 19
| Jim Wright |
February 26
| Tim Burke, Emergence: What It's
Good For (Maybe) |
March 4
| Tim Burke, continued |
March 18
| Jim Marshall, on Sparse Distributed Memory |
March 25
| Jim Marshall, continued |
April 1
| Anne Dalke, Emergent Meaning/Emergent
Literature/Emergent Pedagogy |
April 8
| Ted Wong, Where Are We? |
April 15
| Mark Kuperberg, What Is Emergence?
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April 22
| Al Albano, Boltzmann, Shannon, Information ... and black holes??
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April 29
| Doug Blank
What would motivate a robot to go from the Active Inanimate
to Story Teller?
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May 6
| Doug Blank, continued
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May 20
| Christopher Prince, University of Minnesota Duluth Computer
Science
Synchrony Detection as a Basis for Infant Behavior in Robots
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May 27
| Karen Greif
Building a Real Neural Network
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June 3
| Lisa Meeden
On-Line Self-Regulating Robot Development
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June 10
| Bruce Maxwell and Tim Burke
How can we use agent-based modeling to analyze history?
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June 17
| Doug Blank and Ted Wong
Discussion of a Book About Emergence: How Can the Medium Be
the Message? |
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