Hi Phil, > Has anyone checked to see if any alife 'swarms' display > accumulative variance?
I haven't come across the term 'accumulative variance' before. Do you have a web pointer? As a swarm organizes, the agents' directions and velocities become more correlated with each other. ie agents become more constrained as they lose degrees of freedom. Would you interpret this to be decreasing variance? -Steve > -----Original Message----- > From: Phil Henshaw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 8:24 PM > To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' > Subject: [FRIAM] Do you know? Do 'swarms' follow random walks? > > Has anyone checked to see if any alife 'swarms' display > accumulative variance? > > If you were to design one to do that, would it have a > structure comparable to populations of organisms living in ecologies? > > -In case anyone's curious I have a high quality direct > measure of accumulative variance. > > > Phil Henshaw ¸¸¸¸.·´ ¯ `·.¸¸¸¸ > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > 680 Ft. Washington Ave > NY NY 10040 > tel: 212-795-4844 > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > explorations: www.synapse9.com > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Phil Henshaw > > Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 8:30 PM > > To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' > > Subject: [FRIAM] nature walks! > > > > > > > > I am dually impressed at Amazon's ability to know what > undergarments > > it's random visitors might be advised to > > try....:) (just marvelous!) but still I have some questions about > > reality 101. > > > > If molecules in thermal motion follow random walks, do > fluids composed > > of molecules in thermal motion do so as well? I've run into the > > strangest confusion among Darwinian theorists, both from > journals of > > paleontology and evolutionary biology. I have a quite good paper > > that's unpublishable because I stick my neck out to say populations > > have no non-extraordinary mechanisms for changing by random walks. > > > > a) am I wrong and there are some? a.1)clue me in.. > > b) do you know a journal for people literate in evolution > theory that > > might be willing to consider the issue based on physical mechanisms? > > > > > > Phil Henshaw ¸¸¸¸.·´ ¯ `·.¸¸¸¸ > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > 680 Ft. Washington Ave > > NY NY 10040 > > tel: 212-795-4844 > > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > explorations: www.synapse9.com > > > > > > > > > > ============================================================ > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > > > > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
