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Doesn't seem like much of a mystery to me. It's clear to me that there is a fundamental grammar underpinning all dynamic systems, and multi-agent systems of suf
by soulofmischief 4y ago
Doesn't seem like much of a mystery to me. It's clear to me that there is a fundamental grammar underpinning all dynamic systems, and multi-agent systems of sufficient complexity are bound to have fractal similarities resulting from this grammar.
For example, a universal concept which can apply to any system with measurable state variables is "compression", a naturally occurring phenomenon as high-energy systems tend toward lower energy states. Our DNA compresses genetic expression via instruction sets, our brain compresses incoming information, matter itself compresses over time when left to its own devices.
The underlying mechanism for each of these processes varies, but it results from the same basic energy principles. Other such universal concepts include expansion, oscillation, pretty much any movement of a measured value around or between a range of target values. This grammar accounts for much of the behavior of complex dynamic systems, due to energy conservation being a fundamental quality of stable systems.
- pyinstallwoes 4y agoAfter long hard thinking, and I am being serious, I've concluded the most primordial common denominator of all there is, is exactly the result from two primordial drives: 1) eating 2) pooping This is the source and reason for all movement.
- cheeselip420 4y agoWe are all just worms wearing a skeleton...
- soulofmischief 4y agoThis is the acquisition and expulsion of energy. But in between those steps, living beings also store energy and use it to perform computations which aid in system stability.
- pyinstallwoes 4y agoIndeed.
- kuramitropolis 4y agoCareful, you almost discovered the "Wow!" impulse there https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTp8VizqUWY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTp8VizqUWY
- pyinstallwoes 4y agoWow, wow, wow!
- WastingMyTime89 4y agoI think it has more to do with survivorship bias. To be considered as systems, the elements we considered must be linked and display some stability otherwise it would just be chaos and we wouldn’t find it remarkable. Linked elements means you will see feedback loops. Stability implies some notion of fixed points which means convergence and therefore probably oscillation. It’s not so much that a fundamental grammar emerges from dynamic systems than we consider things as forming a dynamic system when they fit the grammar we have defined.