Self organisation - how networks bring order out of chaos. My last ‘Network Analytics’ post discussed the power of complexity and tried to prove that stuff like brains and social media are not that different when seen from the perspective of complex network science.
I’m going to develop this thought a little further by looking at ‘self organising networks’, a phenomena sometimes described as ‘the Hand of God’. In my last post I said that the human brain *used* to be the most complex entity known to modern science. But recently something else has stolen the crown of being the universe’s number 1 complex network. This new King of Complexity was created just 20 years ago by an Englishman working in Switzerland. In just two short decades it has grown from literally nothing to approximately 100,000,000,000 (100 billion) pages of richly interconnected data, text, images and sound. The new king of complexity is of course the World Wide Web. There are many things about the Web that one could choose to be amazed by. Strange Attractors - sabook.pdf. Strange Attractors. By Julien C.
Collective Intelligence and Collective Leadership: Twin Paths to Beyond Chaos. - Sprouts. Présence d'attracteurs dans les systèmes informationnels. « C 'était en été dans une petite et ancienne ville de France, traversée par une rivière large et puissante.
Je suis resté longtemps sur le seul pont de la cité à la contempler, fasciné par la beauté et la complexité du mouvement de l'eau. (...) (1) ». L'image de la rivière, avec ses flux et reflux, sa palette de couleurs chatoyant, ses jeux de lumière et ses scintillements constitue sans doute une étrange entrée en matière pour introduire la présence d'attracteurs dans les systèmes informationnels. Pourtant un système d'information (SI) forme aussi un spectacle vivant, naturellement et profondément différent de la somme des éléments qui le constituent. Un SI naît, évolue, disparaît tout comme d'ailleurs les organisations ou entreprises auxquelles il est intimement lié.
Ils sont différents de la somme de leurs composants. Les sources. The Spirit of the Internet - Chapter 4. Technological Singularity "The universe may not only be stranger than we suppose; it may be stranger than we can suppose.
" J.B.S. Haldane In mathematics and science, a singularity is a point at which a function takes an infinite value and thus loses meaning in normal terms. For example, as you divide the number "one" by an infinitesimally small decimal number the answer approaches infinity. In 1993, mathematics professor and award-winning writer Vernor Vinge presented a paper titled "Technological Singularity" at the VISION-21 Symposium sponsored by NASA's Lewis Research Center and the Ohio Aerospace Institute.
Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Order Out of Chaos" Let's return to the world of weather forecasts for a moment, as well as the world of butterflies and hurricanes.
You've probably heard of chaos theory, the mathematical field concerned with the seemingly disorganized behavior of highly dynamic systems. The term originates in 1961 with meteorologist Edward N. Lorenz and his fascination with how the smallest of atmospheric variables can result in drastically different weather models. Deterministic Chaos.
Bring light. The Secret Life Of Chaos - Vìdeo Dailymotion. 7X7 - Yin Yang. Chaos & Complexity Pdf Library > GaianXaos. Order from noise. Chaotic Logic: Language, Thought, and Reality from the Perspective of ... - Ben Goertzel - Google Books. "art in itself is an attempt to bring order out of chaos"
Math:Rules - Strange Attractors on Behance. The Chaos Point: The World at the Crossroads - Ervin Laszlo - Google Books. The Four Chaos Attractors - Fractal Wisdom. Ce qu'un attracteur étrange. L’attracteur étrange : cette courbe n’est pas celle du mouvement mais représente les états du système et elle montre que dans des cas où on aurait l’impression du désordre, il y a cependant un certain type d’ordre, des lois, d’où l’expression "chaos déterministe".
Un attracteur signifie que la dynamique a tendance à être attirée par lui. Par exemple, le fleuve est un attracteur du bassin fluvial. FROM CHAOS TO ORDER: METHODOLOGIES, PERSPECTIVES, AND APPLICATIONS. From Chaos To Order. 10 quotes to help you bring order out of chaos at your company. Order out of Chaos. Where you place your emphasis determines in large measure the quality and impact of your life.
Consider this for a moment. Every situation that comes your way will contain a mixture of orderly and chaotic elements. Fear or react to the chaos and you will tend to perpetuate the chaos, if not add to it. Appreciate the order already there – no matter how small a fraction of the total situation it may be – and you greatly improve the chances of you being part of the solution and not the problem.
Chaos, Creativity, and Cosmic Consciousness. Emergence: From Chaos to Order - John Henry Holland - Google Books. Chaos, Cnn, Memristors and Beyond: Andrew Adamatzky, Guanrong Chen: 9789814434799: Amazon.com. Chaos Astrology - Bringing order out of chaos. An exploration into the interconnected nature of the Universe. Chaos+ordre =CHAORD. Chaos Quotes. La linguistique du Chaos. La linguistique du Chaos constitue l’annexe I, pp. 75-77, de T.A.Z.
Zone Autonome Temporaire, publié en français aux Éditions de l’Éclat en 1997. Le texte original a paru en 1991 chez Autonomedia sous le titre T.A.Z. Théorie du chaos. Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre.
What is Chaos? An Interactive Online Course for Everyone. Théorie du chaos : fiche de lecture du livre de James Gleick. 拨乱反正. John Holland, Emergence. The Bactra Review: Occasional and eclectic book reviews by Cosma Shalizi From Chaos to Order John Holland Addison-Wesley, 1997 Game Rules, or, Emergence according to Holland, or, Confessions of a Creative Reductionist John Holland was one of the world's first Ph.D.s in computer science, and even before that one of the first workers in machine learning. Using mLearning and MOOCs to understand chaos, emergence, and complexity in education. Inge deWaard Athabasca University, Canada Sean Abajian Los Angeles Unified School District, USA Michael Sean Gallagher JSTOR, USA.
John Holland - Emergence: From Chaos to Order. Reviewed byTony Curzon Price, W3, ESRC Centre for Economic Learning and Social Evolution, University College London. Here is one of my favourite illustrations of emergence: ... consider one particular copper atom at the tip of the nose of the statue of Sir Winston Churchill that stands in Parliament Square in London. Let me try to explain why that copper atom is there. It is because Churchill served as Prime Minister in the House of Commons nearby; and because his ideas and leadership contributed to the Allied victory in the Second World War; and because it is customary to honour such people by putting up statues of them; and because bronze is the traditional material for such statues, and so on.
Thus we explain a low-level physical observation - the presence of a copper atom at a particular location - through extremely high level theories about emergent phenomena such as ideas, leadership, war and tradition. Holland studies phenomena (types) under the hypothesis that they are emergent. Chaos Quotes.