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Structures of parabolas from which bleed equations." — Dec 03, 2023 02:29AM
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Structures of parabolas from which bleed equations." — Dec 03, 2023 02:29AM
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"The late physicist and complexity pioneer Murray Gell-Mann rightly called formal models “prostheses for the imagination." — Oct 25, 2023 02:20AM
"The late physicist and complexity pioneer Murray Gell-Mann rightly called formal models “prostheses for the imagination." — Oct 25, 2023 02:20AM
“Though many early models of collective behavior sought to reveal common, basic principles that would lead to a single general theory of collective behavior, emergence, or self-organization, it is now clear that the processes that generate collective behavior are very diverse. By now many different models have been developed to de- scribe the myriad processes in nature that use interactions to generate collective outcomes.”
― The Ecology of Collective Behavior
― The Ecology of Collective Behavior
“The “modern synthesis” in evolutionary biology brought the tools of population genetics to track the process of natural selection; now the “extended synthesis” adds the insight that organism and environment influence each other.”
― The Ecology of Collective Behavior
― The Ecology of Collective Behavior
“Although some animals are considered to be solitary rather than group-living, they can also be considered to engage in collective behavior. Even the state of aloneness is itself a relation with others. We know this from our own behavior. People who are alone are not removed from the social fabric; avoidance is a form of relation, and the use of language, even in solitude, is a social activity.”
― The Ecology of Collective Behavior
― The Ecology of Collective Behavior
“When we can describe how patterns of encounters among individuals adjust outcomes in changing situations, we have explained collective behavior and it is no longer emergent. Then we can move past emergence to explanations, and abandon the idea that collective behavior is added on top of individual behavior to create something extra”
― The Ecology of Collective Behavior
― The Ecology of Collective Behavior
“Function in brain networks depends on the modularity and strength of interactions. Activity within a module is faster than across a widespread network because there is no need for the signal to travel long distances, and strong connections work faster than weaker, dif- fuse ones. Danielle Bassett and her colleagues showed that perception of visual cues and the response to new events that capture attention arise from strong, localized connections, which easily facilitate change in the activity of nearby nodes. By contrast, learning and cognition are associated with low modularity in the form of weak, long-distance connections. One outcome is that we see faster than we think.”
― The Ecology of Collective Behavior
― The Ecology of Collective Behavior
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