Slides from my presentation at TOCA ME 09 in Munich, Germany.

1. @blprnt
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2. five people.
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3. the mathematician
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4. the computer scientist
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5. the analyst
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6. the psychic
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7. the swedish guitarist
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8. four projects
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9. similarity maps
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10. image breeder
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11. the colour economy
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12. hacking the newsroom
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13. one big idea.
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14. emergence
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17. (creativity and the edge of chaos)
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18. THIS PRESENTATION
WILL NOT MAKE YOU ANY
MONEY. SORRY.
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19. THIS PRESENTATION
DOES NOT INVOLVE
CONWAY’S GAME OF LIFE.
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24. what is emergence?
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25. “The whole is greater than
the sum of its parts”
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26. complex systems
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27. complex systems are often not understood because we
don’t have a model for them.
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29. emergent systems are often not understood
even though we have a model for them.
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30. photo by johngretton71
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31. flocking
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32. a realistic flocking system can be simulated by giving
individual ‘flockers’ very simple rules
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33. ‘boids’
Craig Reynolds, 1986
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34. alignment - steer towards the average heading of
your flockmates.
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35. separation - steer away from local flockmates
flockmates.
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36. cohesion - steer towards the average position of
your flockmates.
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37. flocking example
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38. The Big Rule v.1
emergence requires many
things.
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39. protein folding
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41. the glocal project
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43. DEMO: Glocal Similarity Map Engine
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48. DEMO: Glocal Image Breeder
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52. The Big Rule v.2
emergence requires many
mobile things.
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53. stock market
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55. multi-agent systems
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56. agent oriented
programming (AOP)
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57. AOP is built on OOP
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58. a societal view of computation
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59. agents interact to achieve
individual goals.
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60. wants a job
wants a
sandwich wants money
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61. agents have mental components -
beliefs, capabilities, choices,
commitments
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62. accurate multi-agent simulations require agents to
sometimes make the ‘wrong’ decisions
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63. the colour economy
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64. the colour economy imagines a system
where pixels can freely trade colour in
the pursuit of profit
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70. DEMO: The Colour Economy
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71. agents
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72. sell
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73. buy
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74. $$ $
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76. how do agents decide which tickets to
offer and which tickets to bid on?
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77. self
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78. analyst
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79. oracle
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84. The Big Rule v.3
emergence requires many mobile
things in a changing environment.
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85. the edge of chaos
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86. emergent behaviour happens most commonly at the
border between ordered and chaotic regimes.
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87. fitness landscapes
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88. the power law of innovation
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89. optimal search distance
fitness
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90. the red queen effect
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91. quot;Well, in our country,quot; said Alice, still panting a little,
quot;you'd generally get to somewhere else — if you run
very fast for a long time, as we've been doing.quot;
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92. quot;A slow sort of country!quot; said the Queen. quot;Now, here,
you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in
the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you
must run at least twice as fast as that!quot;
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93. in complex systems, fitness of an individual depends not
on that individual’s decisions, but also on the decisions
of neighbours, friends, and competitors
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94. competitors are
competing, too.
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95. coevolution
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96. ECD
Excessive Complexity Disorder
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97. Yngwie Malmsteen’s Disease
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98. goodness
complexity
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99. so what?
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100. The Big Rule v.3
emergence requires many mobile
things in a changing environment.
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101. The Big Rule v.3
creativity requires many mobile
ideas in a changing environment.
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102. The Big Rule v.3
collaboration requires many mobile
people in a changing environment.
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103. many.
mobile.
changing.
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110. At Home in the Universe, Stuart Kauffman (1995)
The Nature of Economies, Jane Jacobs (1999)
A New Kind of Science, Stephen Wolfram (2002)
The Wisdom of Crowds, James Surowiecki (2004)
Here Comes Everybody, Clay Shirky (2008)
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111. blog.blprnt.com
www.vimeo.com/coloureconomy
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112. fin.
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114. blprnt@blprnt.com
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