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Consciousness = Information Integration?

avmaier — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 19:12:03 GMT

http://www.sci-con.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=188

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Stage Models and Complexity...

deadletterb — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 20:22:08 GMT

I'm going to introduce a number of threads which are intended to be reference concepts for a discussion. I'm going to be careful not to imply that these concepts map reality. Rather, they are _reference_ metaphors. The idea here is that, whether or not we _agree_ with these ideas, we acknowledge that these are concepts that are being used to organize people's thinking about their reality.

In fact, it would be more accurate to say that the use of these concepts truly indicates a pattern in human pattern-making, more than it ever implies that the world at large reflects these patterns.

Here are some of the stage models, and in a further posts I'll try to bring in a few more. Key question: are there commonalities between these stage models and _exactly_ what are they?

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The most complicated thing?

kanch_bud — Tue, 31 May 2005 16:27:54 GMT

What's the most complicated thing you can think of? Can it be mathematically mapped or described?

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Voice-Stress-Analysis

George_thebinder7 — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 22:12:38 GMT

Awhile back I read some things on Jerry Pournelle's Chaos Manor day book. This had to do with an outfit called Nemesysco Ltd's layered-voice-stress-analysis technology (LVA 6.50) which they claim can provide a psychological assessment of what's behind a verbal response. (For a more detailed account one can google Nemesysco Ltd.) If this technology is as effective as presented it can usher in some very far reaching changes in how society conducts its business.

Opinions?

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Systems Ecology and society

michael — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 00:22:59 GMT

I'm new. My profession is Systems Ecology, more recently systems of man and nature and chaos theory. I another group, "Alas Babylon" we periodically discuss what (not "if") might be the initiating scenario might lead to the destabilization of our current man-nature system.
Any thoughts? michael

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Dunno if this is the right place

DunJuan — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 04:43:34 GMT

Here is thought I had thoug, and I may aswell share it cos,cripes, cant see me doin this.
Laser beams, I dont know how to make one properly, BUT, what if one was made on the moon. With diamonds as prisms, radioactive type material as a power.
Would it be straighter, stronger, maybe even able to mend the ozone from the outside??
etc,etc

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an interesting question

Expatasapien — Tue, 30 May 2006 11:50:43 GMT

How does one apply the concept of the *self referential* to it's self?

i think this is witty at worst ;)

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San Diego Emergent Epistemology Salon

Jennifer — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 03:04:27 GMT

We're seeking members.

The Group: Meets in San Diego about twice a month to talk about the common theme in the ideas listed above... the “?” at the center.

The Goal: Good conversation and maybe insights worth bringing back to your research or business plans or political career or...

The Tone: We're hoping for a small group (5 – 10 people) that works at least as well as “a really thoughtful grad student seminar”.

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The next meeting will be this Sunday (March 25, 2007) at 3PM with singularity flavored reading material with a possible follow up trip to a Vernor Vinge talk at 6PM if people are still game.

The reading for the 3PM meeting is

"Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk"
http://www.singinst.org/ourresearch/publications/artificial-intelligence-risk.pdf

It is an essay on the dangers and benefits of (succeeding at) building a general artificial intelligence. Of general theoretical interest is the discussion of the human reasoning biases that seem to lead many people to radically over estimate the degree to which they "understand intelligence".

Message me for more info :-)

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If you're trying to get a feel for the salon and wondering if coming is likely to jingle your bells, here are some keywords. We aren't shooting for exhaustive coverage of this stuff, what we're aimed at is the common theme running through it all...

Cognitive Science
Lakoff
Cosmides & Tooby
Philosophy of Science
Kuhn - “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions”
Structuralism
Piaget
Artificial Intelligence
Hofstadter - “Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid”
Eric Baum - “Manifesto for an Evolutionary Economics of Intelligence”
Bayesian Probability
Boltzmann Networks
Mitchell - “CopyCat”
Wolfram
Cellular Automata
Automated Theorem Proving
The Singularity
Kurzweil
Vinge
Yudkowsky
Evolution
Goodwin - “How the Leopard Changed Its Spots”
Dennett - “Darwin's Dangerous Idea”
Autocatalytic Chemistry
Margulis - “Symbiosis in Cell Evolution”
Economics
Adam Smith
Political Economy
Jane Jacobs
Cliometrics
Asimov's “Psychohistory”

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Arthur C. Clarke's documentary on Mandelbrot set

STUBBLER — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 02:30:43 GMT

Anyone in Oregon see this on OPB last night? It's a little old, made in the mid-90's, but it's still very cool and applicable. About an hour long.

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biolgical and cognitive system evolution

Sun, 10 Dec 2006 14:47:41 GMT

hi,

I just finished putting some work together on systems and bases used in the evolution of cognitive and biological systems.

the link below takes yo to the main page dealing with evolution through mathematics but some of the earlier pages, particularly chapter one may also be of interest.

http://malcolm.mcewen.googlepages.com/themathematicsofevolution

any comments??

regards

GM23

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Future of Computers - Jefferson Y. Han

jori — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 10:16:25 GMT

I found this amazing video abaout a future user interface
created and performed by Jefferson Y. Han. Never seen
a so fantastic outview in the future of usability and where
software goes.

http://cyberiannomad.blogspot.com/2006/08/amazing-futuresystem-by-jefferson-y.html

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I have an interview with Fritjof Capra tomorrow.. any questions?

zigo — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 03:35:10 GMT

I work in video production for a non-profit organization. Im definately from a lay-person perspective,.. I need to frame and carry the interview in a way that will engage his work into the context of how his work and writing apply to individuals as a collective. I dont know too much about his work.. so I thought Id check in here and see if folks had any burning questions (not too high-level detail please) that we could pose to him to see where he runs with it..

any question for Fritjof?

I'll be happy to supply the links to his answer in flash-video..

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Is Science founded upon a fundamental error?

Thu, 26 Jan 2006 05:55:16 GMT

This question relates to the subject of my life's work, and I've recently completed the first draft of an essay (in 5 parts) entitled, "A Geometric Foundation for a Contemporary Philosophy of Nature". For anyone interested in the subject, I'd like to make the essay available for your comments, criticisms, ideas and questions. I just now put Part 1 of the essay on my profile blog. The remainder of the essay, because it has so many photos, would be better sent by e-mail to anyone interested. It's brief, about 20 pages. My address is: lacanova@valornet.com
Oh, and there's also some info that was posted yesterday at www.smellingthecoffee.com that has a PDF about constructing the new geometric elements using coffee stirrers.

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John Archibald Wheeler on physics and information

barnaby — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 19:41:49 GMT

This is the abstract from John Archibald Wheeler's article "Information, Physics, Quantum; The Search for Links", a paper delivered at the Santa Fe Institute and published in "Complexity, Entropy, and the Physics of Information".

"This report reviews what quantum physics and information theory have to tell us about the age-old question, "How come existence?" No escape is evident from four conclusions: (1) The world cannot be considered a giant machine, ruled by any pre-established continuum physical law. (2) There is no such thing at the microscopic level as space or time or spacetime continuum. (3) The familiar probability function or functional, and wave equation or functional wave equation, of standard quantum theory provides mere continuum idealizations and by reason of this circumstance conceal the information-theoretic sources from which they derive. (4) No element in the description of physics shows itself as closer to primordial than the elementary quantum phenomenon, that is, the elementary device-intermediated act of posting a yes-no physical question and eliciting an answer or, in brief, the elementary act of observer-participancy. Otherwise sated, every physical quantity, every it, derives its ultimate significance from bits, binary yes-or-no indications, a conclusion which we epitomize in the phrase, it from bit."

This is the most concise statement I have ever seen of what I regard to be an issue of incredible importance in understanding our world. It's clear how he would have come to these conclusions, based on his notorious "delayed choice" experiments, and while I haven't read the full article, I find this abstract persuasive on its face.

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Scientists Create the First Synthetic Nanoscale Fractal Molecule

scalefree — Tue, 16 May 2006 10:05:32 GMT

http://news.research.ohiou.edu/news/index.php?item=298

Scientists Create the First Synthetic Nanoscale Fractal Molecule

Thursday May 11, 2006
by ANDREA GIBSON

ATHENS, Ohio – From snowflakes to the leaves on a tree, objects in nature are made of irregular molecules called fractals. Scientists now have created and captured an image of the largest man-made fractal molecule at the nanoscale.

The molecule, developed by researchers at the University of Akron, Ohio University and Clemson University, eventually could lead to new types of photoelectric cells, molecular batteries and energy storage, according to the scientists, whose study was published online today by the journal Science.

A University of Akron research team led by Vice President for Research George Newkome used molecular self-assembly techniques to synthesize the molecule in the laboratory. The molecule, bound with ions of iron and ruthenium, forms a hexagonal gasket.

Ohio University physicists Saw-Wai Hla and Violeta Iancu, who specialize in imaging objects at the nanoscale, confirmed the creation of the man-made fractal. To capture the image, the physicists sprayed the molecules onto a piece of gold, chilled them to minus 449 degrees Fahrenheit to keep them stable, and then viewed them with a scanning tunneling microscope.

Though invisible to the naked eye – the molecules are about one million times smaller than the colorful hexagons shown in the Science image – the objects are 12 nanometers wide. “That’s big for a nanoscale molecule. It’s huge,” said Hla, an associate professor of physics and astronomy.

“This man-made structure is one of the first nanoscale, non-branched fractal molecules ever produced,” said Newkome, who is lead author on the Science paper and also serves as dean of the Graduate School and the James and Vanita Oelschlager Professor of Science and Technology at the University of Akron. “Blending mathematics, art and science, these nanoscopic hexagonal-shaped materials can be self-assembled and resemble a fine bead necklace. These precise polymers — the first example of a molecule possessing a ‘Star of David’ motif — may provide an entrée into novel new types of photoelectric cells, molecular batteries and energy storage.”

Fractals are irregular curves or shapes that retain the same pattern when reduced or magnified. The molecule in the study, for example, is composed of six rings, which are made up of six smaller rings, and so on, Hla explained. Snowflakes, broccoli florets or tree bark would be just a few examples from nature.

Hla and Iancu, a graduate student, also were able to measure the electronic structure of the molecule, which is useful to know for possible electronic applications. “(The molecules) are unique in their own way, so you have to find out what kind of properties they have so we can initiate possible applications,” he said.

The study authors were George R. Newkome, Pingshan Wang, Charles N. Moorefield, Tae Joon Cho, Prabhu Mohapatra, Sinan Li, Seok-Ho Hwang and Judith A. Palagallo, all from the University of Akron; Violeta Iancu and Saw-Wai Hla of Ohio University; and Olena Lukoyanova and Luis Echegoyen of Clemson University.

The research was supported by the National Science Foundation, Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the Ohio Board of Regents.

Hla is a member of Ohio University’s Nanoscale & Quantum Phenomena Institute, Condensed Matter and Surface Science group and Biomimetic Nanoscience and Nanotechnology group, which is part of Ohio University’s $8 million NanoBioTechnology Initiative, one of three major research priorities of the institution.

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a damned interesting article

barnaby — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 02:24:06 GMT

Damned interesting.

http://www.santafe.edu/research/publications/workingpapers/05-02-003.pdf

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Bifurcation

barnaby — Sat, 06 Mar 2004 04:05:26 GMT

Why two?

New Scientist ran an aritcle last year about speciation and the author remarked that divergence in species is almost always a bifurcation, and if it's not, one of the lines will quickly go extinct.

From Henon maps to the origin of species, system dynamics tend to proceed in ones and twos. Is there a necessity underlying this?

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Simple minded question

kanch_bud — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 06:01:20 GMT

What's the simplest thing? In the context of complexity theory does it even exist or it is an arbitrary point of perception?

What does "simple" mean anyway!? As I ask this the word itself suddenly seems very complicated!

Peace,

Paul Bard.

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fractal geometry in Jackson Pollock's painting

barnaby — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 20:18:09 GMT

A very interesting and suggestive piece about the occurance of fractal geometry in interesting abstract art.

http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/PHYSICS_!/FRACTAL_EXPRESSIONISM/fractal_taylor.html

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systems theory - principles?

barnaby — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 03:06:24 GMT

There appears to be a lot of interest in reformulating problems in systems-theoretic terms these days (and rightly so, IMHO). For instance, I've been looking at a book by philosopher Alicia Juarrero, who wants to redefine the philosophical problem domain of action theory in the language of complex systems. I find in her work, for example, the following:

"In short, viewed as a complex dynamical landscape organized across various and interrelated dimensions, a peron's general state of mind is the high-level, distributed neural organization in place at the moment; its attractors represent available act-types, potential pathways through that dynamical self-organization. One implication of the previous chapter is that operating as a top-down constraint, that organization (a dynamical neurological structure of process as conscious and meaningful) can become the agent's virtual governor or order parameter. The resulting act-token is the constrained trajectory through this meaningful, self-organized region of neural space."

What strikes me about this passage is that Juarrero is a little dicey when it comes to pinning down what exactly constitute the attractor basis she refers to. If she could point empirically to attractor basins that are measurable in the firing of neural circuits, for example, then I would say she is definitely on to something.

In my reading, she essentially wants to recapitulate the concept of an intentional actor as an open system, replacining the hihgly-problematic 'executive' theory of action with an idea that intention arises as a complex interplay of neural dynamics, operating and self-organizing on multiple levels.

This typifies a use of systems theory I often find, but I am not certain it is warranted. It seems to me that the assumption here is that the patterns of self-organization that we have discerned through modeling or observing specific far-from-equilibrium homeostatic systems are general principles which we can apply generally to other phenomena. In other words, as I understand it the concept of self-organization is abstracted from modeled or observed instances. Are we therefore justified in taking these abstractions as general principles, and describing other complex systems in this way?

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zero-intelligence decision making

barnaby — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 20:04:35 GMT

Research at the Santa Fe institute supports a social dynamic theory that I have long suspected - key large-scale decisions are governed by control parameters that do not include rational reflection.

A depressing prospect for the Humanist, but how else can you explain the recent elections in the US?

From:
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6948

'Zero intelligence' trading closely mimics stock market

Katharine Davis

A model that assumes stock market traders have zero intelligence has been found to mimic the behaviour of the London Stock Exchange very closely.

However, the surprising result does not mean traders are actually just buying and selling at random, say researchers. Instead, it suggests that the movement of markets depend less on the strategic behaviour of traders and more on the structure and constraints of the trading system itself.

The research, led by J Doyne Farmer and his colleagues at the Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico, US, say the finding could be used to identify ways to lower volatility in the stock markets and reduce transaction costs, both of which would benefit small investors and perhaps bigger investors too.

A spokesperson for the London Stock Exchange says: "It's an interesting bit of work that mirrors things we're looking at ourselves."

Most models of financial markets start with the assumption that traders act rationally and have access to all the information they need. The models are then tweaked to take into account that these assumptions are not always entirely true.

But Farmer and his colleagues took a different approach. "We begin with random agents," he says. "The model was idealised, but nonetheless we still thought it might match some of the properties of real markets."

Buying and selling
In the model, agents with zero intelligence place random orders to buy and sell stocks at a given price. If an order to sell is lower than the highest buy price in the system, the transaction will take place and the order will be removed - a market order. If the sell order is higher than the highest buy price, it will stay in the system until a matching buy order is found - a limit order. For example, if the highest order to buy a stock is $10, limit orders to sell will be above $10 and market orders to sell will be below $10.

The team used the model to examine two important characteristics of financial markets. These were the spread - the price difference between the best buy and sell limit orders - and the price diffusion rate - a standard measure of risk that looks at how quickly the price changes and by how much.

The model was tested against London Stock Exchange data on 11 real stocks collected over 21 months - 6 million buy and sell orders. It predicted 96% of the spread variance and 76% of the variance in the price diffusion rate. The model also showed that increasing the number of market orders increased price volatility because there are then fewer limit orders to match up with each other.

Incentives and charges
The observation could be useful in the real financial markets. "If it is considered socially desirable to lower volatility, this can be done by giving incentives for people who place limit orders, and charging the people who place market orders," Farmer says.

Some amount of volatility is important, because prices should reflect any new information, but many observers believe there is more volatility than there should be. "On one day the prices of US stock dropped 20% on no apparent news," says Farmer. "High volatility makes people jittery and sours the investment climate." It also creates a high spread, which can make it more expensive to trade in shares.

The London Stock Exchange already has a charging structure in place that encourages limit orders. "Limit orders are a good way for smaller investors to trade on the order book," says a spokesperson.

Journal reference: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0409157102)

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Benoit Madelbrot to speak in SF

barnaby — Wed, 18 Aug 2004 23:18:00 GMT

http://www.commonwealthclub.org/featured.html

Second person listed.

Alas, it has sold out. The Commonwealth Club periodically publishes transcripts, so keep an eye on their website.

If any of ye go, please comment afterwards.

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complex vs complicated, + xaos

brianX — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 16:41:23 GMT

ciao tutti,

just wanted to put some two cents in for good measure,

NOTE: complex does not neccessarily mean complicated.

This is a popular misconception in the complexity communities. As a noun, "complex" specifically means a set or arrangement of things so related or connected as to form a unity or organic whole. It means there is a group of two or more systems which are coupled. If these systems are models of real world phenomena, they obviously tend to be nonlinear and high dimensional, thus the Complex System is likely to be complicated, but not neccessarily.

So, with respect to the post about the most complex system, if you mean "which system has the largest number of component systems?", it would have to be "everything which IS", as everything together forms one connected whole. But the paradox is that "the whole enchilada" might also be the simplist thing which exists, because it is the only thing which is truely "one thing." Every specific thing which exists inside of everything only exists in a relational sense, and is therefore more more complicated than everything together "in the broadest sense". This is a nice way to frame the concept of "complexifically simple", or "simplex".

Actually this is not a paradox at all, because the only thing which actually exists is Everything, which we call "now". "Things" are human concepts created by slicing an uncountably infinite dimensional "N:oW" with a lower dimensional cognitive map. Things actually exist for real, but that doesn't mean they aren't illusions. Now, this is beyond the scope of physical and mathematical modeling in the current scientifc sense, but i thought you'd find it interesting.

The point was, in the strict mathematical context, known as complex dynamical systems theory, "complex" means a coupled group of two or more dynamical systems. Each system could even be a low dimensional linear system, and still the coupled system could still be considered complex, but not very complicated.

also check out these goodies:

http://www.gaianxaos.com/chaos_complexity_pdf_library.htm
http://www.gaianxaos.com/images/CompDynSys-Map-hires.jpg

saluti,

BrianX
www.gaianxaos.com

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SF Bay systems theory study

barnaby — Fri, 26 Mar 2004 20:43:29 GMT

Howdy

I have a lot of interest in the Systems Analysis - particularly its applications to psychology (e.g., J. A. Kelso, Esther Thelen, etc.).

Does anyone know if any academic work is being done in the San Francisco area, or in Northern California, on systems analysis? I'm especially interested in applications for psychology, but I'd be very glad to know of any work being done.

Thanks!

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cellular automata ringtones

barnaby — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 17:56:11 GMT

http://tones.wolfram.com/about/how.html

That's just plain crazy.

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John Smart

erinlangley — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 22:59:32 GMT

Mad props to Mister John Smart, who has the courage to write this stuff. I won't ruin it for you. Just read a little.

http://accelerating.org/articles.html

http://accelerating.org/articles/consideringsingularity.html

http://accelerating.org/articles/whatibelieve.html

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ChaNoXity: The nonlinear Dynamics of Nature

scalefree — Fri, 27 Aug 2004 14:37:09 GMT

I can't do the math for the life of me, but I'm generally pretty good with the concepts. But I can't make heads or tails of this one. Anybody want to take a crack at it? http://arxiv.org/pdf/nlin.AO/0408043

Tim

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systems theory as anti-realist

barnaby — Wed, 30 Jun 2004 04:59:58 GMT

I was recently having a discussion with a friend about whether or not systems theory is anti-realist per se. It seems to me that almost every systems theorist I've encountered has been explicitly anti-realist, but I don't believe that this is necessarily strictly true.

For a working definition of realism, I'll take Francisco Varela's definition from The Embodied Mind:

"The world out there has pregiven properties. These exist prior to the image that is cast on the cognitive system, whose task is to recover them appropriately (whether through symbols or global subsymbolic states."

Thoughts?

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Applications of complexity...

Justin — Sun, 18 Apr 2004 17:17:35 GMT

I wrote an undergraduate thesis on cognitive and social change examined through the lens of complexity.
At present, I am most interested in using the theory as a framework for marketing strategy (my profession).
Just wondering what everyone else here is using it for...

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tonal syntax

barnaby — Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:18:49 GMT

Interesting article on similar features in language and music. Both 'create context'.

http://www.nature.com/nsu/040614/040614-11.html

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evolutionary machine design

barnaby — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 18:23:01 GMT

Wired reports race car design simluations using genetric algorythms. Another step forward towards cybernetics?

http://wired.com/news/autotech/0,2554,63900,00.html?tw=wn_5techhead

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chaotic computing

barnaby — Mon, 05 Apr 2004 23:08:56 GMT

The Economist is running an interesting article on "Chaotic computing" (thank you Slashdot).

http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2552875.

Raises a host of intersting questions concering control paradigms.

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