My new piece for @thetransmitter. Why is treating brain dysfunction so ENORMOUSLY challenging?
Because it amounts to controlling a complex system.
Drawing from the history of weather research, I pose the question: Can it even be done? And 14 experts in complex systems chime in. Would love to hear your thoughts as well!
That phrase is just so great. It's easy to see how it's counterpart slipped through the cracks. "Judicious model robustification" - who can claim not to aspire to that as well?
To all modelers out there, may your model be judiciously robustified!
Stigmergy is a form of self-organization. It produces complex, seemingly intelligent structures, without need for any planning, control, or even direct communication between the agents. As such it supports efficient collaboration between extremely simple agents, who may lack memory or individual awareness of each other.
Describes how the characteristic shapes of the mounds of different species emerge. "During mound construction, environmental factors such as heat flow and gas exchange affect the building behavior of termites, and the resulting change in mound geometry in turn modifies the response of the internal mound environment to external thermal oscillations."
Linear Memory (WIP), variations on a theme... exploring the terrain. Impressed by the resulting complexity, considering the simplicity of the system/setup...
A new #ComplexityThougths short essay is out: this time I write about the ongoing debate around the Nature paper on assembly theory. The essay features comments by Sara Imari Walker, Ricard Solè and Hector Zenil, and it's an attempt to provide a balanced overview of what's going on.
Complexity Theory’s 50-Year Journey to the Limits of Knowledge
"How hard is it to prove that problems are hard to solve? Meta-complexity theorists have been asking questions like this for decades. A string of recent results has started to deliver answers.
COMPLEXITY SCIENCE. Talks from the Para Limes’ Illusion of Control conference are now online. I recommend the talks by Sander van der Leeuw (illusion of control), Terry Sejnowski (illusion of intelligence re AI), and especially Atsushi Iriki (cognitive roots of human’s innate illusion of control).
A network that shaped our present: ~400,000 km of roads connecting thousands of cities & villages.
An emblematic physical manifestation of complex adaptive systems, allowing for goods, people and cultures to flow through continents and flourish along millennia.
No i poznalismy wszystkie zespoly, ktore od 17 marca w Kopenhadze beda walczyc w pierwszym turnieju Major (klubowych mistrzostwach swiata) w erze Counter-Strike 2.
Zaskoczenia po amerykanskich kwali? Na pewno #Complexity (ktore niegdys bylo wysmiewane jako typowy, beznadziejny przedstawiciel sceny polnocno-amerykanskiego CS-a) pokonujace i eliminujace z walki #Liquid, ktore - troche podobnie jak #Astralis - wpompowalo gruba kase w sklad i narazie nic im to nie dalo. Ale z drugiej strony, Liquid to bardzo swiezy sklad, wiec to jeszcze o niczym nie swiadczy.
#ENCE 🇵🇱 w pierwszym spotkaniu zagra z Brazylijskim #Imperial - nie powinno byc trudno, ale... ;)
Thought I‘d try something: this book by Juerrero has come up a lot in some of the most interesting conversations I‘ve had on this platform about #causality, #complexity#neuroscience#agency#behaviour#mind and #brain and #dynamical systems but it‘s not an easy read. I am now determined to tackle it and will be posting updates as I go…
This interview covers my formative experience during the personal computers and internet revolution in navigating uncharted waters, and unfamiliar, unexplored territories like we are doing again with Artificial Intelligence right now.