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three things we learn from cellular autamata
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1. convergence; like locomotion
2. divergence, butterfly effect 3. vast majority of patterns go extinct |
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Challanges to reductionism
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round robin tournaments of fish, non reductionist approach
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Francis Galton
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Wisdom of the crowd
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one example of fractal gene mutation
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Kollmanns syndrome: midline symmetry affected, suggests fractal genes
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name three examples of wisdom of the crowd
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1. ants moving dead thing
2. bees to honey 3. humans at cow weighing contest |
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three requirements for wisdom of the crowd to work
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1. crowd must know something, britney vs. string theory
2. no systematic biases 3. one large force vs. lots of small forces; stock market companys changing outcomes by changing predictions |
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three requirements for swarm intelligence
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1. lots of simple component parts
2. local communication 3. repeated iterations |
