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It feels like the article ended just as it was getting warmed up towards something interesting! If any HN'ers have pointers/links to other interesting analyses
by ssivark 7y ago
It feels like the article ended just as it was getting warmed up towards something interesting! If any HN'ers have pointers/links to other interesting analyses of emergent complexity among simple interacting agents, I'd love to read 'em!
- carapace 7y agohttps://www.santafe.edu/ https://www.santafe.edu/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Fe_Institute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Fe_Institute > The Santa Fe Institute was founded in 1984 ... > SFI's original mission was to disseminate the notion of a new interdisciplinary research area called complexity theory or simply complex systems.
- ssivark 7y agoUnfortunately a pointer to the Santa Fe institute is a little too broad to my question (which was specifically about interacting agents, and I was implicitly thinking more about physical embodied beings, somewhat in the spirit of Rodney Brooks' robots). Also, I'm keen on concrete analyses rather than vague hand-wavy pontificating. That said, the Santa Fe Institute is a great resource to be reminded of every once in a while. I'm particularly a fan of a line of research being pursued by Simon Dedeo (and others). eg: Optimal high-level descriptions of dynamical systems https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.7403 https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.7403
- carapace 7y agoSorry. I don't have any good references off the top of my head for that. You know about "BEAM" robotics? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BEAM_robotics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BEAM_robotics W. Grey Walter's cybernetics "turtles"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Grey_Walter#Robots https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Grey_Walter#Robots https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_(robot) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_(robot)
- ssivark 7y agoThanks, I’ll check those out! :-)
- sinuhe69 7y agoHow about Conway Game of Life. The rules are simple but emergent pattern are complex enough that Wolfram could write a whole book about it.