Emergence

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Friday, March 13, 2009

ﬁve people.


the mathematician


the computer scientist


the analyst


the psychic


the swedish guitarist


four projects


similarity maps


image breeder


the colour economy


hacking the newsroom


one big idea.


emergence


(creativity and the edge of chaos)


THIS PRESENTATION
WILL NOT MAKE YOU ANY
MONEY. SORRY.


THIS PRESENTATION
DOES NOT INVOLVE
CONWAY’S GAME OF LIFE.


what is emergence?


“The whole is greater than
the sum of its parts”


complex systems


complex systems are often not understood because we
don’t have a model for them.


emergent systems are often not understood
even though we have a model for them.


photo by johngretton71


ﬂocking


a realistic ﬂocking system can be simulated by giving
individual ‘ﬂockers’ very simple rules


‘boids’
Craig Reynolds, 1986


alignment - steer towards the average heading of
your ﬂockmates.


separation - steer away from local ﬂockmates
ﬂockmates.


cohesion - steer towards the average position of
your ﬂockmates.


ﬂocking example


The Big Rule v.1
emergence requires many
things.


protein folding


the glocal project


DEMO: Glocal Similarity Map Engine


DEMO: Glocal Image Breeder


The Big Rule v.2
emergence requires many
mobile things.


stock market


multi-agent systems


agent oriented
programming (AOP)


AOP is built on OOP


a societal view of computation


agents interact to achieve
individual goals.


wants a job
wants a
sandwich wants money


agents have mental components -
beliefs, capabilities, choices,
commitments


accurate multi-agent simulations require agents to
sometimes make the ‘wrong’ decisions


the colour economy imagines a system
where pixels can freely trade colour in
the pursuit of proﬁt


DEMO: The Colour Economy


agents


sell


buy


$$ $


how do agents decide which tickets to
offer and which tickets to bid on?


analyst


oracle


The Big Rule v.3
emergence requires many mobile
things in a changing environment.


the edge of chaos


emergent behaviour happens most commonly at the
border between ordered and chaotic regimes.


ﬁtness landscapes


the power law of innovation


optimal search distance

ﬁtness


the red queen effect


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;


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;


in complex systems, ﬁtness of an individual depends not
on that individual’s decisions, but also on the decisions
of neighbours, friends, and competitors


competitors are
competing, too.


coevolution


ECD
Excessive Complexity Disorder


Yngwie Malmsteen’s Disease


goodness

complexity


so what?


The Big Rule v.3
creativity requires many mobile
ideas in a changing environment.


The Big Rule v.3
collaboration requires many mobile
people in a changing environment.


many.
mobile.
changing.


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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