variations in variation and selection: the ubiquity
... putty, for example, do not. Such a question requires a dispositional form of explanation in terms of the elasticity of collisions of billiard balls, and the inelasticity in the case of balls of putty. Initial and boundary conditions. Another form of explanation is initial condition explanation. In t ...
... putty, for example, do not. Such a question requires a dispositional form of explanation in terms of the elasticity of collisions of billiard balls, and the inelasticity in the case of balls of putty. Initial and boundary conditions. Another form of explanation is initial condition explanation. In t ...
Creative Ecosystems
... reproduce. Typical co-operative and competitive evolutionary strategies are observed, such as mutualism, symbiosis, predation and parasitism. To be glib, it could be said that the ecosystem has a lot of interesting features going for it. We would like to harness some of these features for the purpos ...
... reproduce. Typical co-operative and competitive evolutionary strategies are observed, such as mutualism, symbiosis, predation and parasitism. To be glib, it could be said that the ecosystem has a lot of interesting features going for it. We would like to harness some of these features for the purpos ...
J. Seckbach (ed.), Genesis - In The Beginning: Precursors of Life
... Thus, abiogenesis was necessary for an evolutive conception, considering all inanimate matter and life a historical continuum, and explaining the emergence of the initial organism(s) (Fry, 2000). Despite Darwin’s ideas, it was only in the twentieth century that evolution seriously entered into scien ...
... Thus, abiogenesis was necessary for an evolutive conception, considering all inanimate matter and life a historical continuum, and explaining the emergence of the initial organism(s) (Fry, 2000). Despite Darwin’s ideas, it was only in the twentieth century that evolution seriously entered into scien ...
Glossaries, References - Paradigm Shift International
... Chaos – The complexity of causality or the relationship between events. This means that any insignificant event in the universe has the potential to trigger a chain reaction that will change the whole system. A well known saying in connection with this issue is "A butterfly flapping its wings in one ...
... Chaos – The complexity of causality or the relationship between events. This means that any insignificant event in the universe has the potential to trigger a chain reaction that will change the whole system. A well known saying in connection with this issue is "A butterfly flapping its wings in one ...
A UNIVERSAL DEFINITION OF LIFE
... universal common ancestor of all terrestrial life. In addition, since the problem of the origin of life is also far from being solved, it is not at all obvious how those ‘biological principles’ would relate to the general laws of physics and chemistry, i.e., if they would be subject to an eventual r ...
... universal common ancestor of all terrestrial life. In addition, since the problem of the origin of life is also far from being solved, it is not at all obvious how those ‘biological principles’ would relate to the general laws of physics and chemistry, i.e., if they would be subject to an eventual r ...
A Universal Definition of Life: Autonomy and Open
... universal common ancestor of all terrestrial life. In addition, since the problem of the origin of life is also far from being solved, it is not at all obvious how those ‘biological principles’ would relate to the general laws of physics and chemistry, i.e., if they would be subject to an eventual r ...
... universal common ancestor of all terrestrial life. In addition, since the problem of the origin of life is also far from being solved, it is not at all obvious how those ‘biological principles’ would relate to the general laws of physics and chemistry, i.e., if they would be subject to an eventual r ...
here - Imedea
... Institut Mediterrani d’Estudis Avançats (CSIC-UIB), C/ Miquel Marqués 21, E07190 Esporles, Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain ...
... Institut Mediterrani d’Estudis Avançats (CSIC-UIB), C/ Miquel Marqués 21, E07190 Esporles, Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain ...
COMPOSITION, IDENTITY, AND EMERGENCE
... molecules in the Atlantic, but the hydrogen atoms in question are members of that plurality. Cotnoir [2013] develops an account of composition as generalized identity which actually allows for this. However, Composition as Generalized Identity, as Cotnoir develops it, does not entail the Collapse Pr ...
... molecules in the Atlantic, but the hydrogen atoms in question are members of that plurality. Cotnoir [2013] develops an account of composition as generalized identity which actually allows for this. However, Composition as Generalized Identity, as Cotnoir develops it, does not entail the Collapse Pr ...
A Reply to Hector-Neri Castaiieda*
... very strong version of the Identity of Indiscernibles? Furthermore, how many properties have to fall into the class formed by the use of class-operator? All the properties of the object? But when? All the properties it exhibits at a particular moment of time? But, then, Castaneda's individuals canno ...
... very strong version of the Identity of Indiscernibles? Furthermore, how many properties have to fall into the class formed by the use of class-operator? All the properties of the object? But when? All the properties it exhibits at a particular moment of time? But, then, Castaneda's individuals canno ...
Running head: LEVELS OF REASONING ABOUT NATURAL
... understand (Penner, 2000, 2001). In order to truly understand emergent phenomenon, students need to not only recognize macrolevel patterns and the agent-based microlevel interactions of a complex system, but also recognize that the macrolevel patterns emerge from the microlevel interactions. However ...
... understand (Penner, 2000, 2001). In order to truly understand emergent phenomenon, students need to not only recognize macrolevel patterns and the agent-based microlevel interactions of a complex system, but also recognize that the macrolevel patterns emerge from the microlevel interactions. However ...
The use of computer simulation in studying biological evolution
... • Mc Shea on complexity. Challenges Bonner (1988) explanation of the increase of complexity through selected incerase of size in various lineages Mc Shea (2005) suggests that complexity increase can be produced with no natural selection, only variation (complexity defined by diversity); models also ...
... • Mc Shea on complexity. Challenges Bonner (1988) explanation of the increase of complexity through selected incerase of size in various lineages Mc Shea (2005) suggests that complexity increase can be produced with no natural selection, only variation (complexity defined by diversity); models also ...
Here - UIC Computer Science - University of Illinois at Chicago
... is able to produce solutions of any possible form as computer programs. Previous research work has shown its powerful capabilities over a large range of domains, including regression modeling, classification tasks, parameter optimization, time series prediction, logic synthesis, and so on (Ferreira ...
... is able to produce solutions of any possible form as computer programs. Previous research work has shown its powerful capabilities over a large range of domains, including regression modeling, classification tasks, parameter optimization, time series prediction, logic synthesis, and so on (Ferreira ...
An Introduction To Arti cial Life
... is attained, but rather wanted to discover what happens after its appearance on the scene. He inoculated his system with a single, self-replicating organism, called the \Ancestor", which is the only engineered (human-made) creature in Tierra. He then set his system loose, and the results obtained we ...
... is attained, but rather wanted to discover what happens after its appearance on the scene. He inoculated his system with a single, self-replicating organism, called the \Ancestor", which is the only engineered (human-made) creature in Tierra. He then set his system loose, and the results obtained we ...
Peertopeer Networking Research Bobby Bhattacharjee Joseph JaJa
... – does not scale – requires trusted infrastructure decentralized PKI – (potentially) scales well – trust needed along query/response path trust relations not likely to adhere to particular structure efficient unstructured lookup ...
... – does not scale – requires trusted infrastructure decentralized PKI – (potentially) scales well – trust needed along query/response path trust relations not likely to adhere to particular structure efficient unstructured lookup ...
Annotated Bibliography - IWS2.collin.edu
... Kretchmer, Ernst (1925) Physique and Character. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. This book is one of the most important works on the possible relations between body type and tendencies towards certain, specifiable sorts of psychological disorder. Kretchmer discovered, that at least for populat ...
... Kretchmer, Ernst (1925) Physique and Character. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. This book is one of the most important works on the possible relations between body type and tendencies towards certain, specifiable sorts of psychological disorder. Kretchmer discovered, that at least for populat ...
Strong and Weak Emergence
... British emergentist C. D. Broad had in mind, when he invoked the need for ‘trans-ordinal laws’ connecting different levels of nature. Are there other cases of strong emergence, besides consciousness? I think that there are no other clear cases, and that there are fairly good reasons to think that t ...
... British emergentist C. D. Broad had in mind, when he invoked the need for ‘trans-ordinal laws’ connecting different levels of nature. Are there other cases of strong emergence, besides consciousness? I think that there are no other clear cases, and that there are fairly good reasons to think that t ...
Emergence
In philosophy, systems theory, science, and art, emergence is a process whereby larger entities, patterns, and regularities arise through interactions among smaller or simpler entities that themselves do not exhibit such properties.Emergence is central in theories of integrative levels and of complex systems. For instance, the phenomenon life as studied in biology is commonly perceived as an emergent property of interacting molecules as studied in chemistry, whose phenomena reflect interactions among elementary particles, modeled in particle physics, that at such higher mass—via substantial conglomeration—exhibit motion as modeled in gravitational physics. Neurobiological phenomena are often presumed to suffice as the underlying basis of psychological phenomena, whereby economic phenomena are in turn presumed to principally emerge.In philosophy, emergence typically refers to emergentism. Almost all accounts of emergentism include a form of epistemic or ontological irreducibility to the lower levels.